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The paradigm-shifting classic that connected the dots between transatlantic slavery, capitalism and racism
'If one criterion of a classic is its ability to reorient our ...
The purpose of this book is to take what we think we know about the Roman Conquest of Britain from historical sources, and compare it ...
In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has ...
During the 1,000-year history of the English monarchy there have been eight kings with the name of Henry. The Eight King Henrys of England ...
The product of years of diligent research, this ambitious title brings the incredibly varied lives (and deaths!) of 1000 Tudor people into a single, accessible ...
What killed Katherine Parr? She was the ultimate Tudor survivor, the queen who managed to outwit and outlive Henry VIII. Yet just over eighteen months ...
"Compelling."-Mathew Lyons, Times (UK)
"Authoritative."-Marcus Nevitt, Spectator
"A sympathetic portrayal of communities fighting for all they held dear."-Lucy Wooding, Times Literary Supplement ...
Rodney Castleden explores the purpose of great prehistoric projects like Avebury and Stonehenge and the nature of the society which built them. Were prehistoric people ...
Britain's first Labour government took office on 22 January 1924. Its centenary provides an opportunity to reassess the party's performance over the last ...
'Thoroughly researched...brings superbly to life figures whom history should not have forgotten.' - Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph
'A highly readable, enjoyable and informative book.' - John ...
'The very best sort of panoramic portrait' David Kynaston
'The Edwardians have long been the lost decade of British history, yet they are that history ...
The astonishing story of the Sassoons, one of the nineteenth century's pre-eminent commercial families and 'the Rothschilds of the East'
The Sassoons were one ...
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Britain had eased its problem of crowded jails and surplus criminals by packing them into ships and sending them ...
Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830, the period known as the long eighteenth century. It uncovers the various experiences ...
The flight of King James II in November 1688 was a seminal moment in British history. The deposed Catholic King set up house and home ...