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We're constantly told the same things about the monarchy:
But the monarchy is good for tourism..
It isn't! Evidence points...
Britain in the early eighteenth century: an introduction that is both informative and imaginative, reliable and entertaining. To...
Spanning the origins of the Earth to the outcome of the First World War, this is a brilliantly compelling account of the...
A social history of 1980s Britain, told through the sport of the time.
Travel back to the 1980s - to Botham's Ashes and the...
Venice, 1522. Intelligence arrives from the east confirming Europe's greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman Sultan has all he...
It was a time of climate change and colonialism, puritans and populism, witch hunts and war . . .
This is the story of a home...
March 1945. Allied troops are poised to cross the Rhine and sweep on into Germany. Victory is at last within their grasp. But if...
May 1940: In the face of a lightning German advance, the British Army found themselves, stunned, broken, beaten, their backs...
Enlightenment Britain was ablaze with ambition and energy. Great writers like Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Samuel Johnson,...
Drawing from the people who lived it, Homelands explores how Europe slowly recovered and rebuilt from World War Two. And then...
An instant bestseller and one of the most celebrated history books of the year, Femina reveals the power and influence of...
Skulduggery, power struggles and politics, The Private Lives of the Saints offers an original and fascinating re-examination of...
The radio war of 1939-45 is one of the great scientific battles in history.
This is the story of that war.
Relying on...
Knowledge is power. Which is why the rich and powerful don't want you to have it.
The Playbook is an expose of the...
If Britain's maritime history were embodied in a single ship, she would have a prehistoric prow, a mast plucked from a Victorian...
Told for the very first time, this is the shocking and extraordinary story of the most-conniving and manipulative Tudor family...
There can be few more exciting or frightening moments in European history than the spring of 1848. Almost as if by magic, in city...
This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest...
Eighteenth-century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world. But...
Britain's empire has gone. We no longer matter as we once did. And yet there is still one area in which we can legitimately claim...
An elite platoon of Marine Scout-Snipers, Lieutenant Frank Tachovsky's "40 Thieves" were chosen for their willingness to defy...
Why Is the Middle East Entering a “New Era?” Is It a New Dawn? Is It a Setting Sun?
In the third decade of the twenty-first...
In August 1978, the Iron Curtain still hung heavily across Europe. To escape from oppressive East Berlin, an East German couple,...
An extraordinary exploration of the ancestry of Britain through seven burial sites. By using new advances in genetics and taking...
Eggs or Anarchy is one of the great, British stories of the Second World War yet to be told in full. It reveals the heroic tale...
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman...
Both a religious order and a private army, the Templars were answerable only to the Pope and dominated the politics of the Middle...
Henry VIII is Britain's most notorious monarch, remembered for his six wives and splitting the church in two for the sake of...
An impassioned and persuasive argument for the American colonies' independence from the British crown, Tom Painea€s pamphlet was...
When Victoria was born in 1819, no one expected her to become queen. But when William IV died in 1837 without a legitimate child...
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