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Matthew Boulton, of the famous Boulton & Watt steam engine partnership, was an eighteenth-century designer and inventor. Before he partnered up with James Watt he ...
Frank Barlow's magisterial biography, first published in 1970 and now reissued with new material, rescues Edward the Confessor from contemporary myth and subsequent bogus ...
Plantagenet is the name given to the English royal house descended from the union of Queen Matilda of England and her second husband Geoffrey of ...
The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, 'the most entertaining historian alive' (Spectator).
'Kynaston's aim is to provide ...
In this important new work Ian Mortimer examines some of the most controversial questions in medieval history, including whether Edward II was murdered, his possible ...
The first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd.
Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great ...
Neither a feckless knight-errant nor a king who neglected his kingdom, Richard I was in reality a masterful and businesslike ruler. In this wholly rewritten ...
Nancy Durrell has always been an enigma. To her husband Lawrence, future author of the Alexandria Quartet, she was his introduction to bohemian London, his ...
A radical retelling of the most important event in English history - the Norman invasion of 1066. The Norman Conquest is the single most important event ...
The Last Days of Richard III contains a new and uniquely detailed exploration of Richard's last 150 days. By deliberately avoiding the hindsight knowledge ...
This is sunday Times bestseller. It is a Telegraph Book of the Year. It is a History Today Book of the Year. It is a ...
When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene at the end of every Robin Hood epic when he returns from the
Crusades ...
