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 Eyes of Gaza
Plestia Alaqad
Let's Make Things Better
Gidon Lev
Julie Gray
Eleanor
Alice Loxton
Hope in Action
Sanna Marin
The Enigma of Arrival
V.S. Naipaul
Inside Hitler's Bunker
Joachim Fest
The Rest Is Quiz
Goalhanger
Assad
Con Coughlin
Never
Rick Astley
Freedom
Angela Merkel
From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir
Lisa Marie Presley
Riley Keough
Feminist History for Every Day of the Year
Kate Mosse
Sophie Bass
Putting Myself Together
Jamaica Kincaid
Ungovernable
Simon Hart
Charles III
Robert Hardman
Supremacy
Parmy Olson
The Spartans
Paul Cartledge
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
The Biggar Picture
Dan Biggar
Air and Love
Or Rosenboim
D-Day: The Unheard Tapes
Geraint Jones
Everything Must Go
Dorian Lynskey
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 Glass Cliff
Sophie Williams
Rites of Passage
Judith Flanders
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