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John Morton (c. 1420 - 1500) was one of the most important men in the land from the Wars of the Roses to the start of ...
Tim Waterstone is one of Britain's most successful businessmen, having built the Waterstones empire that started with one bookshop in 1982.
In this charming ...
There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because ...
The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in English or British history. Traditionally considered victims of a ruthless ...
A Times History Book of the Year
Valentine's Day, 1613. Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Frederick V ...
From popular fiction such as The Hobbit and Game of Thrones to the universality of the English language, the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxons can ...
In this brilliant work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her ...
The official biography of Queen Mary, grandmother of the current Queen, originally commissioned in 1959 - with a new foreword by Hugo Vickers.
When Queen Mary ...
The success of the Norman Conquest of Britain turned on one lucky break. For months, William of Normandy waited for an opportunity to cross the ...
In a series of debates with Oliver Cromwell in Civil War England of 1647, the Levellers argued for democracy for the first time in British ...