The essays in this book - all specially written for it - address the central problem in the under...

This is a collection of biographical essays by twelve eminent historians.

Intended to celebrate the 70th birthday of the distinguished historian, Lawrence Stone, these ess...

Each of the thirty essays here penetrates to the root of a character, a problem, a style, an idea...

This book evaluates Churchill's historical position in the twenty-first century.

This is a collection of biographical essays by twelve eminent historians.

This book examines the boom in history, in television and film, newspapers and radio and the cons...

During the 1960s and 1970s, the growth of interest in the urban past was one of the most prominen...

This exciting new book on British country houses offers an unusual and magnificent look at the li...

A single volume history of the full expanse of Westminster Abbey, written with the general reader...

Few modern women have had as great a political impact as Margaret Hilda Roberts, the grocer's dau...

Across almost 50 years, Winston Churchill produced more than 500 paintings. His subjects included...

Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Visiting Professor at ...

From one of our most acclaimed historians, a wise and provocative call to re-examine the way we l...

Sir David Cannadine is Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, Visiting Professor at ...

A landmark work from one of the preeminent historians of our time: the first published biography ...

The new volume in the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series takes on thegreater 18th century...

'A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change.' --The New York TimesAt the o...

An intriguing look at ways in which perceptions of a glorious past have continued to haunt the Br...

A sweeping history of nineteenth-century Britain by one of the world's most respected historians....

A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famou...

David Cannadine's impassioned, controversial plea for us to recognise the importance of both equa...