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The English Bible and the Seventeenth-century Revolution: Uses of the Bible in 17th-century England

By Christopher Hill

Pompeii: Lost and Found

By Mary Pope Osborne, Bonnie Christensen

Disraeli: The Victorian Dandy Who Became Prime Minister

By Christopher Hibbert

The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography

By Alan Jacobs

England My England: A Treasury of All Things English

By Gerry Hanson

Power Games: Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics

By David Stuttard

Intellectuals

By Paul Johnson

In Search of Churchill

By Martin Gilbert

This England

By Pete Davies

Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship

By Jon Meacham

The Sixties: Social and Cultural Transformation in Britain, France, Italy and the United States, 1958-74

By Arthur Marwick

Every Girl's Duty: The Diary of a Victorian Debutante

By Alice Catherine Miles, Maggy Parsons

Gibbon

By J. W. Burrow

Byzantium: The Early Centuries

By John Julius Norwich

Pelican History of European Thought: v. 1: The Awakening of Europe

By Philippe Wolff

Sins of the Fathers: Study of the Atlantic Slave Traders, 1441-1807

By James Pope-Hennessy

Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia

By Christopher Clapham

Dictionary of African Historical Biography, Second edition, Expanded and Updated

By Mark R. Lipschutz, R. Kent Rasmussen

Uganda Now: Between Decay and Development

By Hoelger Bernt Hansen, Michael Twaddle

Knight: The Medieval Warrior's (Unofficial) Manual

By Michael Prestwich

No End Save Victory: A Kaleidoscope of New Second World War Writing

By Robert Cowley

River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future

By Victor Mallet (Asia News Editor, Financial Times)

An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England

By Peter Hunter Blair

A Narrative of Captivity in Abyssinia (1868): With Some Account of the Late Emperor Theodore, His Country and People

By Henry Jules Blanc

Garenganze or Seven Years Pioneer Mission Work in Central Africa

By Frederick Stanley Arnot

BATTLES IN FOCUS ISANHDLWANA

The Zulu War: A Pictorial History

By Michael Barthorp

To the Bitter End: Photographic History of the Boer War, 1899-1902

By Emanoel Lee

The Nigerian Military: A Sociological Analysis of Authority and Revolt 1960-67

By Robin Luckham

Gibraltar

By Maurice Harvey, Sir John Chapple