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AEthelflaed, eldest daughter of Alfred the Great, has gone down in history as an enigmatic and almost legendary figure. To the popular imagination, she is ...
At the heart of the English Civil War stands the wife of Charles I, Henrietta Maria. She came to England in 1625 at the age ...
A fascinating and dramatic investigation into the events that led to Winston Churchill becoming Prime Minister against the odds
A fascinating and dramatic investigation into ...
It is often assumed that the national identity must be a matter of values and ideas. But in Robert Winder's brilliantly-written account it is ...
Today, as liberty and truth are increasingly challenged, the figures of Churchill and Orwell loom large. Exemplars of Britishness, they preserved individual freedom and democracy ...
Paperback edition of a compelling popular biography of England's first Stuart ruler. Few kings have been more savagely caricatured or grossly misunderstood than England ...
Petticoat Pioneers offers a fascinating insight into the world of female inequality in the Eighteenth Century. It looks at the reasons for that inequality the ...
Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it ...
Inglorious Empire tells the real story of the British in India - from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj ...
This book is the first to give a detailed and comprehensive account of all the children of Richard III, covering his only legitimate child, Edward ...
Russia and Britain were never natural bedfellows. But the marriage, in 1894, of Queen Victoria s favourite granddaughter, Alicky, to the Tsarevich Nicholas marked the ...
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome.
Located at the ...
The story of the individuals whose ambition and recklessness transformed London, England and the world
Life in Europe was fundamentally changed in the 16th century ...
