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Synopsis Subtitled : A History of England's Kings & Queens. The Sunday Times Bestseller. A seriously funny, seriously clever history of our e...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Fight For Freedom. A New York Times Bestseller! A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017. . . . "Their paths ne...

Synopsis The Times Top 10 Bestseller. Shortlisted for The Wainwright Prize. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. Th...

Synopsis Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artefacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscripti...

Synopsis Intrepid presenter Nicholas Crane investigates eight epic journeys, following in the footsteps of our greatest indigenous explorers. Nic...

Synopsis The Debatable Land: The Lost World Between Scotland and England. The Debatable Land was an independent territory which used to exist bet...

Synopsis Subtitled : The History of Christianity in Britain & Ireland through Twenty Buildings. Christianity has been central to the lives of...

Synopsis Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A History of Ancient Britain Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on the...

Synopsis Subtitled : Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain. Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century onwards owed as much to the vi...

Synopsis Full Subtitle : 22nd January 1879 : Minute by Minute. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes ...

Synopsis A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller. The incredible story of the greatest female spy in history, from one of Britain's most acclaimed histo...

Synopsis The Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace, 1851: James Chance, of the glass-making firm Chance Brothers, is nervously showcasing a new lens, ...

Synopsis From eyewitness accounts of the first post-war operations in Malaya in the 1950's to a controversial blueprint for the organisation's fu...

Synopsis A compelling and evocative history of Britain through the stories of its `lost' or abandoned buildings; a companion to Channel 5's serie...

Synopsis Subtitled : Selected Journalism & Other Writings. First collected in this volume 2014. Edited with an introduction by Peter Davison. G...

Synopsis Delve into this eye-opening companion to Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown as renowned biographer and the show's historical consultan...

Synopsis Subtitled : A History of The British Isles. A magisterial new one-volume history of the British Isles from the Romans to the present day...

Synopsis Wedlock is the remarkable story of the Countess of Strathmore and her marriage to Andrew Robinson Stoney. Mary Eleanor Bowes was one of ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Rise & Fall of the Victorian City. Victorian cities, so long the object of derision as a byword for deprivation, are...

Synopsis By two Acts of Union, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland - which at the time were separate states with separate legislat...

Synopsis These journals cover the period from 1848 to 1882 provide a fascinating insight into the days she spent with her family in her much belo...

Synopsis If you are you looking to inspire your child with the story of Britain's history, H.E. Marshall's classic Our Island Story is perfect. A c...

Synopsis Tells of the marriage of Prince Charles and Princess Diana and other events which led the Queen to observe that the royal family had under...

Synopsis The British designed and built the Harrier, the most successful vertical take-off-and-landing aircraft ever made. Combining state-of-the-a...