History
Essential books illuminating key periods of history, from the Romans to the Tudors to World War 1. Delve into the history of England with Peter Ackroyd, explore Britain’s forgotten multicultural past with David Olusoga, or uncover the violent rise of early Christianity with Catherine Nixey.
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Margaret George’s favourite stories of the Roman Empire.
Homage to Barcelona
Colm Tóibín
The Sign of the Cross
Colm Tóibín
Nostalgia
Agnes Arnold-Forster
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
Henry Gee
Is This Working?
Charlie Colenutt
The Glass Cliff
Sophie Williams
Rites of Passage
Judith Flanders
Literature for the People
Sarah Harkness
Dead Weight
Emmeline Clein
Armageddon
Max Hastings
Judgement at Tokyo
Gary J. Bass
Heresy
Catherine Nixey
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
Kate Mosse
Lily's Promise
Lily Ebert
Dov Forman
Let's Make Things Better
Gidon Lev
Julie Gray
King Leopold's Ghost
Adam Hochschild
Blood on the Snow
Robert Service
Going to the Wars
Max Hastings
Editor
Max Hastings
Love Letters of the Great War
Mandy Kirkby
In a Free State
V.S. Naipaul
Father and Son
Jonathan Raban
Black History for Every Day of the Year
David Olusoga
Yinka Olusoga
Kemi Olusoga
Turning Points
Steve Richards
The Stories of Your Life
Ben Ambridge
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
Dispatches
Michael Herr
The Discovery of France
Graham Robb
The Men Who Stare At Goats
Jon Ronson
The Sister
Sung-Yoon Lee
A Mother's Courage
Malka Levine
Das Reich
Max Hastings
Warriors in Scarlet
Ian Knight
Party Lines
Ed Gillett
The Places In Between
Rory Stewart
Occupational Hazards
Rory Stewart
Divine Might
Natalie Haynes
Overlord
Max Hastings
The Archaeology of Loss
Sarah Tarlow