British History
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William II: The Red King
John Gillingham
Read more ▸ Order ▸William II, or William Rufus, son and successor to William the Conqueror, is most famous...
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Stephen: The Reign of Anarchy
Carl Watkins
Read more ▸ Order ▸Remembered as a time in which ‘Christ and his saints slept’, Stephen’s troubled reign plunged...
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Richard I: The Crusader King
Thomas Asbridge
Read more ▸ Order ▸Even within his own lifetime Richard I, dubbed the ‘Lionheart’, attained a kind of semi-mythical...
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James I: The Phoenix King
Thomas Cogswell
Read more ▸ Order ▸James’s reign marked one of the rare breaks in England’s monarchy. Already James VI of...
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George I: The Lucky King
Tim Blanning
Read more ▸ Order ▸George I was probably the most important of the Hanoverian monarchs to have reigned in...
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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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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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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...