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 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
The Sale of the Late King's Goods
Jerry Brotton
Wonderland
Steven Johnson
Churchill
Roy Jenkins
Poetry of the First World War
Marcus Clapham
Last Minute Rooms in Bethlehem
Dale Shaw
Liszt
Sacheverell Sitwell
The Nix
Nathan Hill
How to Survive a Plague
David France
Revolution
Peter Ackroyd
The Walker in the Shadows
Barbara Michaels
The Young Melbourne & Lord M
David Cecil
An Introduction to the House of Commons
Robert Rhodes James
Prince Albert
Robert Rhodes James
Keeping My Sisters' Secrets
Beezy Marsh
A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer
Melissa Muller
Reinhard Piechocki
Dunkirk
Julian Thompson
I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
Paul Howard
Fighting ISIS
Tim Locks
Kind of Blue
Ken Clarke
Rasputin
Douglas Smith
The Watercolourist
Beatrice Masini
Walls Come Tumbling Down
Daniel Rachel
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
A Rage for Order
Robert F. Worth
Spain in Our Hearts
Adam Hochschild
A History of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr
Marriages Are Made in Bond Street
Penrose Halson
Wish Lanterns
Alec Ash
Final Solution
David Cesarani