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If you could travel back in time, the period from 1660 to 1700 would make one of the most exciting destinations in history. It’s the age of Samuel Pepys and the Great Fire of London, bawdy comedy and the libertine court of Charles II, Christopher Wren in architecture, Henry Purcell in music...

What was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past and walk the streets of London in the 1590s, where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? And if so, how would that glory sit...

White Cargo is the forgotten story of the thousands of Britons who lived and died in bondage in Britain’s American colonies. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, more than 300,000 white people were shipped to America as slaves. Urchins were swept up from London’s streets to labor in...

The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary was a remarkable achievement, and a story of determination, hard work and inspired research. Simon Winchester, with his characteristic gift for bringing history to life, charts the fascinating life of the OED leading up to the appointment of the...

The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the decade. On the morning of Saturday 22nd April 1978, members of an Active Service Unit of the IRA hijacked a car and crossed the countryside to the town of Lisburn. Within an hour, they had killed an off-duty policeman in...

We like to think we know the story of how Britain went to war with Germany in 1939, but there is one part of the story that has never been told. It features a group of MPs who repeatedly spoke out against their party and their government's policy of appeasing Hitler and Mussolini. Remarkably...

NOMINATED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE A WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE MONTH Emerging from a collection of disparate city states 150 years ago, no other country has had as turbulent a history as Germany or enjoyed so much prosperity in such a short time frame. Today, as much of the world succumbs to...

n July 1964, the Sunday Mirror ran a front-page story headlined: PEER AND A GANGSTER: YARD ENQUIRY. While withholding the names of the principal subjects, the newspaper reported that the Metropolitan Police had ordered an investigation into an alleged homosexual relationship between ‘a...

From the author of national bestsellers The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter comes "a rousing tale of little-known heroes" (Booklist).The Few tells the dramatic and unforgettable story of eight young Americans who joined Britain's Royal Air Force, defying their country's neutrality laws and...

A National Bestseller “A modern classic, one we very much need right now.” –George Saunders From the acclaimed author of The Shepherd’s Life, a magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway, where his...

The Dark Ages have long been cast as a murky, unknowable period – a void between the worlds of Rome and later medieval Europe. That picture is wrong. In this sweeping history of Europe between 500 and 1000 AD, Oxford historian Alice Rio brings a long-obscured era into intimate focus. Told...

A page-turning exposé of royal intrigue, plotting, and scandal that sheds new light on a family at war with itself, from the creator of The Royalist Substack. The Dukes by Tom Sykes is the blockbuster inside story of how the betrayals of Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, combined with the...

In May 1685, two women — the young Margaret Wilson and the elder Margaret MacLachlan — faced execution at the Bladnoch estuary, steadfast in their refusal to renounce their Presbyterian faith. The Wigtown Martyrs tells their story with clarity and compassion, tracing the social, religious, and political forces that shaped their courage. Drawing on contemporary testimonies, parish records, and Covenanting accounts, this concise volume explores the moral conviction, community networks, and enduring legacy of these remarkable women.

Ladies and gentlemen, step right up… On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age of the ‘Freak’ was...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From royal babies to royal marriages, not all are what they seem—this book exposes the hidden skeletons of England's most famous rulers Were the "Princes in the Tower" illegitimate? Did Henry Viii really have six wives? How virginal was "the Virgin...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Robert Hardy is famous throughout the world as an actor. Not so widely known is his deep interest in archery and its history. An acknowledged expert on the longbow, he is a Trustee of the Royal Armouries at HM Tower of London, and of the Mary Rose Trust...

The Anglo Saxon Chronicle was only the first of many English histories to be compiled over many generations in the scriptoria of Britain – the chronicle hammered out by monks in Worcester in the 12th century is the only one that made any claim to be 'ultimate', or 'The Chronicle of Chronicles'.

A cultural history, a memoir, a love letter and a reckoning The English Midlands is the least eulogised part of these islands; the bit left over when all of the sharper, sexier regions have staked their claim; the blank space at the centre of the map. And yet. This is also a bellwether region...

What on earth has PG Wodehouse, the creator of the Inimitable Jeeves and the hapless Bertie Wooster, got to do with a serious topic like the decline and fall of the British Empire? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is Quite a Lot. The British Empire depended on splendid show and display, but...

On 1 August 1714 George I was proclaimed king, bringing Britain and his native Hanover into personal union and founding the dynasty that has ruled Britain ever since. It marked the beginning of a close yet fraught relationship that would shape the destiny of both Britain and Germany, with...