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Acclaimed historian Alistair Moffat sets off in the footsteps of the Highland clans. In twelve journeys he explores places of conflict, recreating as he walks ...
The Tudor period is familiar to British public in reading and viewing in books, TV series and film - list is endless, from Shakespeare and Fletcher ...
The first full-length history of England in one volume for many decades - now in paperback
The English first came into existence as an idea, before ...
Book of the Year in the Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and New Statesman
'A powerful illumination of a lost world that is nevertheless part of ...
'Highly entertaining' - The Times
'A hymn book to the London street' - TLS
'an artful recipe book for that most crucial of human achievements: good cities ...
The execution of King Charles I is one of the well-known facts of British history, and an often-quoted snippet from our past. He lost the ...
A portrait of Jane Austen's England told through the career paths of younger sons-men of good family but small fortune
In Regency England the ...
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard-the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium ...
A lively and comprehensive history of Belfast-covering the highs and lows of a resilient city
Modern Belfast is a beautiful city with a vibrant tradition ...
In 1601, as the reign of Elizabeth I drew to a close, the civil lawyer Thomas Wilson identified the prevailing uncertainty over the English succession ...
'An engaged, informed companion for the armchair time traveller...captures the thrill and the difficulties of interpreting the past'. TLS
'Duncan has written a masterpiece ...
Captain Bligh's Journal is the most important of all of the primary documents relating to the infamous mutiny on the Bounty. Needless to say ...
Explores how events in James II & VII's younger life shaped James the King. James II & VII was not born to be a ...
This book teases out the similarities and differences between 'the sweat' and its better-known, if equally feared, contemporary infectious disease, bubonic plague. Among the array ...
A fascinating new history of the early days of the British Empire, told through the stories of the forgotten international powerhouses who aided, abetted and ...