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Since the Venerable Bede wrote his iconic Ecclesiastic History of England in the eighth century, King Penda has been relegated to the role of villain ...
'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' THE TIMES
'A brilliant, bloody account of ...
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'(A)sensational book by one of our greatest and best-loved historians... Astoundingly good.' - Alison Weir
'Masterful, captivating, page-turning, this is solid gold history at its ...
The definitive guide to the Bayeux Tapestry and its legacy, exploring the rich narrative behind its stitches and the turbulent times in which it was ...
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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"Gripping. . . . Lukacs's story is not new . . . but [he] has ...
A lively new history of London told through twenty-five buildings, from iconic Georgian townhouses to the Shard
A walk along any London street takes you ...
The personal side of James II and VII has long been obscured by the propaganda storm emanating from the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688, one of ...
The first history of childhood in Tudor England
"Tudor Children is social history at its best. . . . By connecting with our own history as children, Orme ...
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 ...
From the natural geometry of the Giant's Causeway to the sarsen slabs used to build Stonehenge, we are surrounded by evidence for the extraordinary ...
From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I tells the story of the troubled accession of England's first Scottish ...