British History
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Paradise Street: The Lost Art of Playing Outside
Shirley Baker, Paul Kaye & John Gay
Read more ▸ Order ▸For children growing up in Britain fifty or more years ago, streets and alleyways were...
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The Secret Twenties
Timothy Phillips
Read more ▸ Order ▸In the 1920s, many in the British establishment became convinced that their way of life...
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Mary Queen of Scots
Stefan Zweig
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the moment of her birth to her death on the scaffold, Mary Stuart spent...
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Aethelred the Unready: The Failed King
Richard Abels
Read more ▸ Order ▸A major new title in the Penguin Monarchs series In his fascinating new book in...
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Claire Breay & Dr. Joanna Story
Read more ▸ Order ▸The Anglo-Saxon period stretches from the arrival of Germanic groups on British shores in the...
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Collecting the World
James Delbourgo
Read more ▸ Order ▸Staff Pick
It’s remarkable that this is the first biography of Hans Sloane in sixty years!...
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Henry I
Edmund King
Read more ▸ Order ▸The youngest of William the Conqueror’s sons, Henry I (1100-35) was never meant to be...
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A Short History of England
Simon Jenkins
Read more ▸ Order ▸From the invaders of the dark ages to the aftermath of the coalition, one of...
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William III & Mary II: Partners in Revolution
Jonathan Keates
Read more ▸ Order ▸William III (1689-1702) & Mary II (1689-94) (Britain’s only ever ‘joint monarchs’) changed the course...
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William I: England’s Conqueror
Marc Morris
Read more ▸ Order ▸On Christmas Day 1066, William, duke of Normandy was crowned in Westminster, the first Norman...
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Victoria: Queen, Matriarch, Empress
Jane Ridley
Read more ▸ Order ▸Queen Victoria inherited the throne at 18 and went on to become the longest-reigning female...
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Richard II: A Brittle Glory
Laura Ashe
Read more ▸ Order ▸Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial...