British and Irish History
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African and Caribbean People in Britain
Hakim Adi
Read more ▸ Order ▸A History
A major new history of Britain that will transform our understanding of this country’s...
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Broadcasting Britain
Robert Seatter
Read more ▸ Order ▸100 Years of the BBC
Discover the BBC’s central role in reflecting our ever-changing world….
Created 100...
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Devil-Land
Clare Jackson
Read more ▸ Order ▸England Under Siege, 1588-1688
A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history.
Among foreign...
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The Wolf Age
Tore Skeie
Read more ▸ Pre-order ▸The Vikings, the Anglo-Saxons and the Battle for the North Sea Empire
In the eleventh century,...
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Black England
Gretchen Gerzina
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Forgotten Georgian History
Georgian England had a large and distinctive black community. Yet all of...
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We Don’t Know Ourselves
Fintan O'Toole
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Personal History of Ireland Since 1958
We Don’t Know Ourselves is a very personal vision...
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Honourable Misfits
Marie Le Conte
Read more ▸ Order ▸A Brief History of Britain’s Weirdest, Unluckiest and Most Outrageous MPs
Politicians are weird – we...
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The Tudors in Love
Sarah Gristwood
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year...
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Scenes from Prehistoric Life
Francis Pryor
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the Ice Age to the Coming of the Romans
An invigorating journey through Britain’s prehistoric...
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The Black Book
Sybil Oldfield
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Britons on the Nazi Hit List
In 1939, the Gestapo created a list of names:...
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Henrietta Maria
Leanda de Lisle
Read more ▸ Order ▸Conspirator, Warrior, Phoenix Queen
A myth-busting biography of Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, which retells...
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The Case of the Married Woman
Lady Antonia Fraser
Read more ▸ Order ▸Caroline Norton – A 19th Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women
CAROLINE NORTON, a nineteenth-century...