This concise and authoritative biography of the UK's longest-reigning monarch is written by leadi...

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.

For too long, too many historians have been too much concerned with impersonal forces, underlying...

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...

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

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