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'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir
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A lively, new and sweeping history of the rise of the state in Plantagenet England.Between 1199 and 1399, English politics was high drama. These ...
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The first history of childhood in Tudor England
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A revelatory account of how King George VI and Elizabeth's marriage unexpectedly saved the monarchy.
Granted special access by Queen Elizabeth II to her ...
From the Millennium Dome to Brexit, from boom to bust to Liz Truss, an expert, painfully funny account of Britain's calamitous history since 2000 ...
Why did England's one experiment in republican rule fail?
Oliver Cromwell's death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in ...
A TLS, TIMES, PROSPECT AND WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR
A groundbreaking examination of how the marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn sent shockwaves ...
It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn't be more wrong.
In Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers ...
'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES
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A new story of rural Britain and its colonial past, through a series of country walks
The countryside is almost sacred to many Britons. There ...
Playwright, poet, spy, a scarlet woman condemned for loose morals . . . meet Aphra Behn, history's most fascinating female
In 1682, a young woman in the ...
'If a house could gossip, this is the book that Hampton Court would whisper. An enjoyable and readable stroll through 500 years of Hampton Court ...
A Sunday Times History Book of the Year 2023
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The #1 Irish Times bestseller
WINNER of the An Post Irish Book Awards
'A clear-eyed, myth-dispelling masterpiece' Marian Keyes
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