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.
The Discovery of Britain
Graham Robb
Crucible of Light
Elizabeth Drayson
Feminist History for Every Day of the Year
Kate Mosse
Sophie Bass
Putting Myself Together
Jamaica Kincaid
Supremacy
Parmy Olson
The Spartans
Paul Cartledge
Ghost Nation
Chris Horton
A Sound So Very Loud
Ted Kessler
Hamish MacBain
The Endless Country
Sami Kent
Notre-Dame
Ken Follett
India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul
Eighteen
Alice Loxton
The Moment of Lift
Melinda French Gates
Fatherhood
Augustine Sedgewick
The Biggar Picture
Dan Biggar
Strangers and Intimates
Tiffany Jenkins
Air and Love
Or Rosenboim
D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
Geraint Jones
That Dark Spring
Susannah Stapleton
Voices of Victory
Geraint Jones
Underdogs
Joel Budd
The Eyes of Gaza
Plestia Alaqad
One Small Step
Paul Sinton-Hewitt
Storm Pegs
Jen Hadfield
Failed State
Sam Freedman
Bad Blood
Colm Tóibín
Homage to Barcelona
Colm Tóibín
The Sign of the Cross
Colm Tóibín
Nostalgia
Agnes Arnold-Forster
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
Henry Gee
Is This Working?
Charlie Colenutt
The Glass Cliff
Sophie Williams
Rites of Passage
Judith Flanders
Ungovernable
Simon Hart
Literature for the People
Sarah Harkness
Dead Weight
Emmeline Clein
Armageddon
Max Hastings
Judgement at Tokyo
Gary J. Bass
Heresy
Catherine Nixey
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer