An irresistible tour de force, Stella Tillyard’s award-winning biography of the four great-grand-daughters of Charles II – Caroline, Emily, Louisa and Sarah Lennox – has produced a history of the Georgian period as exciting as any novel.
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Licentious pagans or mystical druids? Rapacious vandals or noble warriors? Nora Chadwick sets out to discover the truth about The Celts.
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Uncover the dramatic story of the Anglo–Saxons through their own words in this unique collection of Anglo–Saxon writing.
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William Allingham was acquainted with almost every major cultural figure of the 19th century: Ruskin, Browning, Thackeray, George Eliot, Carlyle, Darwin, Holman Hunt, Hans Christian Andersen and William Morris amongst others. His 'Diaries' are a monument to friendship, filled with entertaining and touching details and clearly capturing the voices of the people he knew.
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This selection of celebrated essays by Charles Dickens conjures up a peerless, eyewitness account of the 19th-century capital, from the rarefied world of Whitehall to working-class conviviality and blighted slums.
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The true story of the daring double agents who helped win the war, this secret report was never intended to go beyond a very select audience within the government and security services. Now published in its entirety, it is impossible to get closer to the desperate world of war-time espionage than this first-hand account written by a key player of the game.
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Often called the golden age of English culture, the Elizabethan age saw an unprecedented explosion of creativity in the arts and commerce. In this rich portrait of the time, Rowse examines English society under Elizabeth and the lasting influence of the era, still resonating today.
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A ‘political turncoat, a dangerous adventurer’; a ‘delightful rogue who lacked political judgement’ – today few people would guess that these were descriptions of one of the most admired statesmen of the 20th century – Winston Churchill. Yet as historian John Lukacs points out, when Churchill took over as Prime Minister in May 1940, he was not well-liked.
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Winner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award, The Wolfson History Prize and The Whitfield Prize.
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Peter Hopkirk's immensely readable account of the epic stand-off between the two superpowers of the nineteenth century--Victorian Britain and Czarist Russia -- reveals the history at the core of today's geopolitics.
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Experience the drama of English history through the great personalities, battles, discoveries, dramas and tragedies that have moulded the nation.
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One of the greatest and most influential works of history, Macaulay's History of England covers the period from 1685 to 1702. Beginning with James II's troubled reign, Macaulay unravelled the complex web of 17th-century politics setting a new standard for future historians, both in terms of scholarship and style.
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Bede, the father of English history, created a dramatic narrative which remains the most valuable chronicle of Anglo-Saxon England in existence and an unrivalled account of the early days of Christianity.
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In his seminal chronicle, Geoffrey of Monmouth traces the history of Britain, ‘best of islands’, from its legendary foundation by the Trojan king Brutus, through the Roman occupation, to the heroic age of Arthur and the coming of the Saxons. Presented and read at the time as a historical account, it is in fact a beguiling mixture of fact, myth and legend.
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A feat of Elizabethan scholarship and printing, this towering work traces the history of Great Britain – from the bravery of Boudicca to the troubled reign of Mary, Queen of Scots. This Folio edition includes all the most famous and significant passages.
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