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The story of life as a Tudor King or Queen, as told through houses such as the Tower of London, Whitehall, Westminster and Hampton Court ...
Famously depicted as 'Crookback Dick', and as Shakespeare's 'bunch-back'd toad', the murderer of the Princes in the Tower and the warrior vanquished at ...
The failed naval offensive to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office in disgrace and nearly ...
'Virgin Queen' is the name for which the powerful and fearless daughter of Henry the Eighth and Anne Boleyn is best remembered and may explain ...
Although he was never faithful, Jones sees him as a serial monogamist: he spent his life in search of a perfect woman, a search that ...
A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year for 2017
'War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, 'is a great locomotive of history.' He was thought to be ...
A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political ...
Although he styled himself 'His Highness', adopted the court ritual of his royal predecessors, and lived in the former royal palaces of Whitehall and Hampton ...
Thomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the ...
The Transatlantic Marriage Bureau will romp through a full year to tell the story of nine young American women - the seasons, the parties, the money ...
A seminal biography of Cnut, the underappreciated eleventh-century Scandinavian warlord-turned-Anglo-Saxon monarch who united the English and Danish crowns to forge a North Sea empire
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This is an astonishing true tale of espionage, journeys in disguise, secret messages, double agents, assassinations and sexual intrigue. Alexander Burnes was one of the ...