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A dramatic, immersive and thrillingly original account of a defining episode in the English Civil War
A TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, TELEGRAPH, SPECTATOR, THE CRITIC ...
'Old John of Gaunt, time-honour'd Lancaster' John of Gaunt (1340-1399) was the son of one king and the father of another. He claimed a ...
The Cecils: The Dynasty and Legacy of Lord Burghley looks at the lives of William Cecil, Lord Burghley, Elizabeth I's Chief Minister and Secretary ...
The 'boy-king' is finally shown in a new light: not as an overshadowed son, but as a notable King of England. For too long, King ...
A hugely entertaining exploration of Ireland's historical sites with a dark side. Fizzing with curiosity and humour and revealing fascinating and unearthed stories from ...
The definitive modern biography of the great Edwardian Foreign Secretary, one of the principal actors in the approach to the First World War
'The lamps ...
In this intimate history of the extraordinary Black Plague pandemic that swept through the British Isles in 1665, Evelyn Lord focuses on the plague's ...
The definitive history of the Spanish Armada, lavishly illustrated and fully revised
In July 1588 the Spanish Armada sailed from Corunna to conquer England. Three ...
From Boudica to William the Conqueror, this is the story of the Early Middle Ages and the hidden history of it's people
Updated with ...
Economic warfare is not a new phenomenon. In the protectionist climate of the seventeenth century, trade embargoes, exclusions and boycotts were common. England was among ...
A beautifully produced account of the history and importance of Hadrian's Wall, by a bestselling author and expert on Ancient Rome.
Located at the ...
'The beauty of this book is in the telling: The Irish Difference lays out its themes and chronologies with impeccable clarity, and is full of ...
In popular imagination the warfare of the Early Middle Ages is often obscure, unstructured, and unimaginative, lost between two military machines, the 'Romans' and the ...
A fascinating record of how London and Londoners were shaped by nearly 700 years of public executions.
More frequent in London than in any other ...