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`Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India ... A book of beauty' - Gerard DeGroot, The Times
In August 1765 the East India ...
In this incredible companion to the second and third seasons of Netflix's acclaimed series The Crown, renowned biographer and the show's historical consultant ...
The British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. They ...
Winston Churchill towers over every other figure in twentieth-century British history. By the time of his death at the age of 90 in 1965, many ...
How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we live now? How did ...
That decade was one of the most momentous in English history- it saw a religious break with the Pope, unprecedented use of parliament, the dissolution ...
'Appeasing Hitler is an astonishingly accomplished debut. Bouverie writes with a wonderful clarity and we will no doubt hear a lot more of his voice ...
In early 1461, a seventeen-year-old boy won a battle on a freezing morning in the Welsh marches, and claimed the crown of England as Edward ...
In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule ...
Throughout history there have been many long-running rivalries between party leaders, but there has never been a connection like that between Churchill and Attlee. Brought ...
'I was riveted- this is a fascinating social history.' NIGELLA LAWSON
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'An outstanding work of historical artistry, a brilliantly woven and pacy story of the men who surrounded, influenced and sometimes plagued Henry VIII.' Alison Weir ...
A new narrative history of the Viking Age, interwoven with exploration of the physical remains and landscapes that the Vikings fashioned and walked: their rune-stones ...
At Histories of the Unexpected, we believe that everything has a history - even the most unexpected of subjects - and that everything links together in unexpected ...
Lighthouses are striking totems of our relationship to the sea. For many, they encapsulate a romantic vision of solitary homes amongst the waves, but their ...
