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King James VI of Scotland, I of England

By Antonia Fraser

Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

By Christina Lamb

Hide and Seek: The Irish Priest in the Vatican who Defied the Nazi Command. The dramatic true story of rivalry and survival during WWII.

By Stephen Walker

Sand In My Shoes: Coming of Age in the Second World War: A WAAF's Diary

By Joan Rice

Amedeo: A True Story of Love and War in Abyssinia

By Sebastian O'Kelly

Here I Stand

By Roland H. Bainton

Nostradamus: The Evidence

By Ian Wilson

The English Civil War

By Purkiss, Diane

Collected Works

By Queen Elizabeth I, Leah S. Marcus, Janel M. Mueller, Mary Beth Rose

The Devonshires: The Story of a Family and a Nation

By Roy Hattersley

Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

By Anna Beer

Masters of the English Reformation

By Marcus Loane

The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox

By Alison Weir

Oliver Cromwell: King in All But Name, 1653-58

By Roy Sherwood

The Grand Quarrel: Women's Memoirs of the English Civil War

By Hudso Roger, Roger Hudson

The Verneys

By A Tinniswood

Court Lady and Country Wife: Royal Privilege and Civil War: Two Noble Sisters in Seventeenth-Centurn England

By Lita Rose Betcherman (University of Toronto, Canada)

Roundhead General: Campaigns of Sir William Waller

By John Adair

The Way We Were: Remembering Diana

By Paul Burrell

A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising

By The Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie

Fall Out: A Year of Political Mayhem (Brexit Trilogy 2)

By Shipman, Tim

Sir Francis Drake: The Construction of a Hero

By Bruce Wathen

The Admirable Adventures and Strange Fortunes of Master Anthony Knivet: An English Pirate in Sixteenth-Century Brazil

By Anthony Knivet, Vivien Kogut Lessa de Sa (University of Cambridge)

Ahmad al-Mansur: The Beginnings of Modern Morocco

By Mercedes Garcia-Arenal

Selection (Oxford English Texts)

By Johnson, Samuel, Hardy, John Philips

The Age Of Bede

By Edited with an Introduction By D. H. Farmer

King Charles II: His Life and Times (Kings & queens of England)

By Fraser, Lady Antonia

Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia

By Francis Wheen

Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival

By Daniel Finkelstein

The Fifth Act: America's End in Afghanistan

By Elliot Ackerman