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.
King of Spies
Blaine Harden
No Way Out
Adam Jowett
Operation Chaos
Matthew Sweet
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
The Debatable Land
Graham Robb
Wolves of Rome
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Steve Brusatte
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman
Love Letters of Great Men
The End of the Cold War
Robert Service
Promise Me, Dad
Joe Biden
Christmas
Judith Flanders
Drawing Europe Together
Various
Gladstone
Roy Jenkins
All My Mother's Secrets
Beezy Marsh
Rising '44
Norman Davies
Dare Not Linger
Nelson Mandela
Mandla Langa
The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Michael Burleigh
To War with Whitaker
Hermione Ranfurly
The Trial of Adolf Hitler
David King
The Darkening Age
Catherine Nixey
The Lost Pilots
Corey Mead
Kosovo: a Short History
Noel Malcolm
The Assassination of the Archduke
Greg King
Sue Woolmans
My Country, My Life
Ehud Barak
To Die in Spring
Ralf Rothmann
Escaping Hitler
Monty Halls
Move Fast and Break Things
Jonathan Taplin
The Women Who Flew for Hitler
Clare Mulley
The King's Assassin
Benjamin Woolley
Some Sunny Day
Madge Lambert
Robert Blair
The Burning Time
Virginia Rounding
Truevine
Beth Macy
The Last of the Tsars
Robert Service
We Were Warriors
Johnny Mercer
Empires and Barbarians
Peter Heather
Seven Ages of Paris
Alistair Horne
Capturing the Light
Roger Watson
Helen Rappaport
The Games
David Goldblatt
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Baroness Orczy