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What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? The ...
'Concise, elegant and lucid ... A very useful primer on the delusions of an English mentality' Guardian
What do we get wrong about Britain's history ...
Friends, rivals, confidants: for more than two decades, Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden worked closely together. But while one is revered as a great leader ...
Have you ever wondered what life was like for the thousands of ordinary people who experienced Victorian mental health care? Life in the Victorian Asylum ...
During the upheavals of 2007-09, the chairman of the Federal Reserve had the name of a Victorian icon on the tip of his tongue: Walter ...
From the sixteenth until the twentieth century, British power and influence gradually expanded to cover one quarter of the world's surface. The common saying ...
A stunning, powerfully evocative new novel based on a true story - in 1726 in the small town of Godalming, England, a young woman confounds the ...
Warrior tells the story of forgotten man, a man whose bones were found in an Anglo-Saxon graveyard at Bamburgh castle in Northumberland. It is the ...
A population of proud indigenous people fight for generations to preserve their homelands against an expanding empire - an invasion justified as being necessary for 'progress ...
Thomas Gresham was arguably the first true wizard of global finance. He rose through the mercantile worlds of London and Antwerp to become the hidden ...
The latest volume in Simon Heffer's critically acclaimed history of modern Britain
'A brilliant history- The first serious and really wide-ranging history of the ...
For more than six decades, Queen Victoria ruled a great Empire at the height of its power. Beside her for more than twenty of those ...
The biography of England's penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, Edward the Confessor. Often depicted as a virginal, pious simpleton, Edward was in fact a devious, wily ...
When Sophia Dorothea of Celle married her first cousin, the future King George I, she was an unhappy bride. Filled with dreams of romance and ...
'Provides a wealth of juicy anecdotal material about five centuries of court life' New York Times
'Naughty Knickers version of our island story' Daily Mail ...