History
Essential books illuminating key periods of history, from the Romans to the Tudors to World War 1. Delve into the history of England with Peter Ackroyd, explore Britain’s forgotten multicultural past with David Olusoga, or uncover the violent rise of early Christianity with Catherine Nixey.
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Margaret George’s favourite stories of the Roman Empire.
Storm Pegs
Jen Hadfield
The Endless Country
Sami Kent
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
Air and Love
Or Rosenboim
A Mother's Courage
Malka Levine
D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
Geraint Jones
Das Reich
Max Hastings
Warriors in Scarlet
Ian Knight
Party Lines
Ed Gillett
Literature for the People
Sarah Harkness
The Places In Between
Rory Stewart
Occupational Hazards
Rory Stewart
Divine Might
Natalie Haynes
Nostalgia
Agnes Arnold-Forster
Overlord
Max Hastings
The Archaeology of Loss
Sarah Tarlow
The Breach
Denver Riggleman
Dead Weight
Emmeline Clein
An Honourable Exit
Eric Vuillard
Paris: A Literary Anthology
Zachary Seager
Heresy
Catherine Nixey
The Glass Cliff
Sophie Williams
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
Rebecca Skloot
Burial Rites
Hannah Kent
Rites of Passage
Judith Flanders
The World and All That It Holds
Aleksandar Hemon
Judgement at Tokyo
Gary J. Bass
A Little Girl in Auschwitz
Lidia Maksymowicz
Charles III
Robert Hardman
Blood on the Snow
Robert Service
The Ship Beneath the Ice
Mensun Bound
Turning Points
Steve Richards
Father and Son
Jonathan Raban
The Making of the Modern Middle East
Jeremy Bowen
Bad Land
Jonathan Raban
Passage To Juneau
Jonathan Raban
India After Gandhi
Ramachandra Guha
Assad
Con Coughlin
The Sister
Sung-Yoon Lee
The Greatest Invention
Silvia Ferrara