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Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd ...
A stunning tour de force and a remarkable achievement.- Alison Weir
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The bestselling classic In Search of the Dark Ages expanded and revised for the book's 40th anniversary. From Boudica to William the Conqueror, this ...
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Scotland is one of the oldest nations in the world, yet by some it is hardly counted as a nation at all. Neither a colony ...
For almost 350 years the Plantagenet family held the English throne - longer than any dynasty in English history - and yet its origins were in Anjou ...
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He was the illegitimate son of a king, a gallant and brave military hero, charming, handsome and well loved both within the court and with ...
Most strongly associated with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, it is often stated that Britain's policy of appeasement was instituted in the 1930s in the ...
A portrait of a radical age via the writers who gather around a publisher's dining table - from William Wordsworth to Mary Wollstonecraft
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Geography is Destiny tells the history of Britain and its changing relationships with Europe and the wider world, from its physical separation at the end ...
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Through the story of his own family's history as slave and ...