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In "William the Conqueror", Professor Douglas analyzes the causes and the true character of the Norman impact upon England in the eleventh century. The work ...
A friend once said of Churchill "He is a man of simple tastes; he is quite easily satisfied with the best of everything." But dinners ...
After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 ...
In 1066 the most significant battle on English soil - and arguably the most important in British history - took place some six miles northwest of Hastings ...
In this controversial new book, Adrian Gilbert reveals the real reason why Charles married Diana and how, through her, the Royal Family was reconnected with ...
The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. Shakespeare's Restless World uncovers the extraordinary stories ...
John Darwin won the Wolfson History Prize for his book "After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires". In "Unfinished Empire" he examines the ...
It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Through luck, guile and ruthlessness, Henry VII had clambered ...
The one hundred letters brought together for this book illustrate the range of Hugh Trevor-Roper's life and preoccupations: as an historian, a controversialist, a ...
Henry VIII's forceful personality dominated his age and continues to fascinate our own. In few other reigns have there been developments of such magnitude-in ...
The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling and definitive biography of Britain's first female Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher was the longest-serving Prime ...
Her personal life riven by passion, illness and intrigue, Queen Anne presided over some of the most momentous events in British history. Like Antonia Fraser ...