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.
Darkness Becomes Bright
Emily Ogden
No Land to Stand On
Mahmoud Khalil
No Way to Run a Country
Johnny Mercer
Basic Pistol
Harel Shapira
Hope in Action
Sanna Marin
Threads
Sir Paul Smith
The Loss of El Dorado
V.S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V.S. Naipaul
The City Without Jews
Douglas Smith
Putting Myself Together
Jamaica Kincaid
Eleanor
Alice Loxton
Ghost Nation
Chris Horton
Crucible of Light
Elizabeth Drayson
The Making of the Modern Middle East
Jeremy Bowen
The August Coup
Robert Service
Between the Waves
Tom McTague
The Everest Mystery
Julie Summers
Jochen Hemmleb
Freedom Round the Globe
Sarah M. S. Pearsall
The Discovery of Britain
Graham Robb
How to Resist Guilt
Mona Chollet
Strangers and Intimates
Tiffany Jenkins
Underdogs
Joel Budd
Fatherhood
Augustine Sedgewick
King of the World
David Remnick
Voices of Victory
Geraint Jones
If We Tolerate This
Daniel Trilling
A Sound So Very Loud
Ted Kessler
Hamish MacBain
Elizabeth II
Robert Hardman
One Small Step
Paul Sinton-Hewitt
A Vast Horizon
Anna Thomasson
That Dark Spring
Susannah Stapleton
Statecraft
Jack Watling
The Opium War
Julia Lovell
The First Ghetto
Alexander Lee
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
Henry Gee
Black and British
David Olusoga
Is This Working?
Charlie Colenutt
World Enemy No. 1
Jochen Hellbeck
The Stories of Your Life
Ben Ambridge
The Killing Age
Clifton Crais