books by subject
Great Britain History

Cromwell, the Lord Protector

Spymaster: The Life of Britain's Most Decorated Cold War Spy and Head of MI6, Sir Maurice Oldfield

Necropolis: London and Its Dead

A History Of British Serial Killing: The Shocking Account of Jack the Ripper, Harold Shipman and Beyond

The Young Elizabeth

An Utterly Exasperated History of Modern Britain: or Sixty Years of Making the Same Stupid Mistakes as Always

Bad Business: Professional Crime in Modern Britain

Our First Revolution: the Remarkable British Uprising That Inspired America's Founding Fathers

The Scottish Enlightenment: an Anthology

Portland Encyclopedia

Collins Gem Kings and Queens

Shaftesbury: The Poor Man's Earl

Fortune and a Family: Bournemouth and the Cooper Deans

Prince Charles: In the Shadow of the Throne

The Little Book of Norfolk

Reputations in History: Thomas Becket Paper

The Albert Hall: A Victorian Masterpiece for the 20th Century

Political Theatre in Post-Thatcher Britain: New Writing, 1995-2005

Slavery and the Slave Trade

Echoes of Empire: Memory, Identity and Colonial Legacies

Food Worth Fighting for: From Food Riots to Food Banks

Sir Sigmund Sternberg: The Knight with Many Hats

Princess Diana: The Hidden Evidence

The Times Britain's Hidden Railways: A journey along 50 long-lost railway lines

The Yorkshire Dales: A View from the Millennium

English Village Green

City Bankers, 1890-1914

The Great Man: Sir Robert Walpole: Scoundrel, Genius and Britain's First Prime Minister

Political Parties in Britain 1783-1867
