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A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century
According to legend ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This ...
This book tells the story of the archaeology and history of Somerset from the earliest times up to the twentieth century. Illustrated with 100 drawings ...
Winner of the Whitbread Biography of the Year.
William Gladstone was, with Tennyson, Newman, Dickens, Carlyle, and Darwin, one of the stars of nineteenth-century British ...
Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. With the echo of that chilling injunction hundreds were accused and tried for witchcraft across England throughout ...
Whilst there have been many books about
Churchill and several biographies of Clement Attlee, few have focused on the
relationship between these two very different ...
On 16 August 1819 on St Peter's Field, Manchester, a peaceful demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally dispersed by sabre-wielding ...
A family story of blood and memory and the haunting power of the past.
2018 WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER EWART-BIGGS MEMORIAL PRIZE
2017 WINNER OF ...
A major new work by one of Britain's leading journalists and most acclaimed historians
'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The ...
A fascinating, vivid biography of the founder of the British Museum and exploration of the itch to accumulate
Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of ...
The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. They ...