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British History

The pre-eminent biographer of the late Queen has had plenty of time to prepare - and update - this.

Charles III: New King. New Court. The Inside Story

Robert Hardman

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First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new.

The Warwickshire Scandal

Elizabeth Hamilton

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Daughter of F.E. Smith and married to Lord Camrose, Pamela Berry was at the centre of British life for 50 years. This biography of one of the 'Bright Young Things', who became a redoubtable ... read more

Lady Pamela Berry: Passion, Politics and Power

Harriet Cullen

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A new study of this brilliant Renaissance man, so influential on the history of mainland Europe as well as England.

Thomas More: A Life

Joanne Paul

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Thrilling narrative history embracing the Hundred Years War, the Black Death and - with plenty of turmoil and skulduggery - the end of the Plantaganets.

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century ...

Helen Carr

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A collection of C19th photographic portraits of Black African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and mixed heritage people. This feat of curation brings together plate negatives, stereoscopic imag... read more

Black Chronicles: Photography, Race and Difference in Victorian Britai ...

Renee Mussai

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The parallel paths of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward Hyde (later Lord Clarendon). Friends in youth indeed, they found themselves on opposing sides in the Civil War. Dinshaw has a C17th ... read more

Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War ...

Minoo Dinshaw

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The huge army that landed in East Anglia in 845CE became a constant presence for the next fifteen years - unlike previous raids that took place only in the summer months. New archaeological... read more

Life in the Viking Great Army: Raiders, Traders, and Settlers ...

Dawn M. Hadley

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Pevsner, Gombrich, Weidenfeld... the list of 1930s' émigrés who profoundly enriched British culture is extraordinary and very long. OH argues that we forget our proud tradition of asylum a... read more

The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed the Br ...

Owen Hatherley

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Favourite and lover of James I and beloved friend of his son; husband, father, art collector, tireless statesman... The cost of his pearl-spilling outfit when he went to meet Henrietta Maria... read more

The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham ...

Lucy Hughes-Hallett

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The second volume of Hutton's excellent biography, this covers the period from the capture of Charles I to the expulsion of the Long Parliament. (Volume 1 - The Making of Oliver Cromwell is ... read more

Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief

Ronald Hutton

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Selected journalism, lectures and recollections from the veteran historian and commentator.

The Back of an Envelope: A Life in Writing

Peter Hennessy

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One married the Tsar, another wed Kaiser Wilhelm's brother, another a Russian Grand Duke, the fourth a Battenberg. Their lives were overshadowed (and some cut short) by the Russian Revolutio... read more

The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse: The curious destinies ...

Frances Welch

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Despite having birthright, Richard was deluded, bitter, and inspired fear. His cousin Henry - born just three months apart - was regarded as a chivalric hero and inspired loyalty. A triumph ... read more

The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV ...

Helen Castor

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A brisk chronological survey, showing what it felt like to live through those turbulent years.

Republic: Britain’s Revolutionary Decade, 1649-1660 ...

Alice Hunt

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The Safeguard of the Sea: 660-1649 came out in 1997. Vol 2 was The Command of the Ocean: 1649-1815 (2004). Here is the culmination to an astonishing, sustained work of scholarship.

The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1814-1945 ...

N.A.M. Rodger

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'Nye' Bevan, Roy Jenkins, Tony Benn, Enoch Powell, Keith Joseph and ... the new member of Parliament for Clacton.

Making the Weather: Six Politicians Who Changed Modern Britain ...

Vernon Bogdanor

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Begun in 1292, St Stephens was at first the royal Chapel for the Plantagenets. In 1548 it became the House of Commons, but it burned out in the fire of 1834. Its story reflects the shifts in... read more

The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of ...

John Cooper

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From Burghley's biographer and the author of The Watchers: A Secret History of the Reign of Elizabeth.

All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil

Stephen Alford

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Follows the author's The Plantaganets and The Hollow Crown. HV's reign encompassed more than just victory at Agincourt - the consolidation of a national psyche (with some help from Shakespea... read more

Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England’s Greatest Warrior King ...

Dan Jones

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Before the East India Company took hold, the dazzling Mughal courts received a raggle-taggle caravan of C16th and C17th merchants, priests and adventurers.

Travellers in the Golden Realm: How Mughal India Connected England to ...

Lubaaba Al-Azami

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More ships were lost to shipwreck than in battle during the Napoleonic Wars. This is a valuable study of the Hydrographic Office and its intrepid sailors, who gathered the intelligence that ... read more

Nelson’s Pathfinders: A Forgotten Story in the Triumph of Britis ...

Michael Barritt

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All taught at Christ Church, Oxford. RD-H is - as ever - an engaging and learned cicerone.

History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politic ...

Richard Davenport-Hines

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Eschews tribalism for a witty, perceptive look at our core political institutions.

Failed State: Why Nothing Works and How We Fix It

Sam Freedman

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A close examination of 125 years of data, from the late 1890s to the present: this is a remarkable and comprehensive piece of research.

Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite ...

Aaron Reeves

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By the MP whose previous book was an excellent biography of Philip Sassoon.

Rivals in the Storm: How Lloyd George Seized Power, Won the War and Lo ...

Damian Collins

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From the author of the excellent Invisible Agents, about women and espionage in C17th Britain.

Spycraft: Tricks and Tools of the Dangerous Trade from Elizabeth I to ...

Nadine Akkerman

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A portrait of the UK's radical left: Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone, John McDonnell, Diane Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn.

The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Th ...

Andy Beckett

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1199-1399. So: John, Henry 3; Edwards 1,2,3; Dick 2. From a brace of Cambridge dons.

Arise, England: Six Kings and the Making of the English State ...

Caroline Burt

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The story of one of the most tumultuous moments in British history, which analyses how James I's rule was haunted by Elizabethan political norms and values.

From Tudor to Stuart: The Regime Change from Elizabeth I to James I ...

Susan Doran

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A powerful, timely reminder that exiles and refugees are, and always have been, intrinsic to Britain.

This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain ...

Matthew Lockwood

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Following Cromwell's death, there were 10 changes of government in 2 years. Reece argues that there was still no great support for a return to the monarchy and yet, despite strong military b... read more

The Fall: Last Days of the English Republic

Henry Reece

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Crises compounded by the systemic tendency to make political mountains out of molehills.

Haywire: A Political History of Britain in the Twenty-First Century ...

Andrew Hindmoor

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With Chartists, Diggers and Levellers among her cast, the revered Green MP for Brighton offers an inclusive account of Englishness that differs radically from that purveyed by the Right.

Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story

Caroline Lucas

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The third part of his compelling political 'trilogy', after All Out War and Fall Out (pbk, ?9.99 each)...

No Way Out: Brexit: From the Backstop to Boris

Tim Shipman

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Tumultuous events led to a 4th vol - from May's resignation to the final deal.

Out: How Brexit Got Done and Four Prime Ministers Were Undone ...

Tim Shipman

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