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Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which many women gave ...
Out of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, we've invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171. That's not far ...
Wace's "Brut" is an 1155 French verse rendering of Geoffrey of Monmouth's earlier Latin "history" of Britain, from the time of Brutus, the ...
From modest beginnings, Britain rose throughout the nineteenth century to become the greatest shipbuilding nation in the world, yet by the end of the following ...
A major new study of the kingship of James VI and I and Charles I in Scotland, England and Ireland, from 1567 to the outbreak ...
"Tell us, Mary, about the morning that Brendan [Behan] and Patrick [Kavnagh] arrived [at the bookshop] together"...Even Beatrice laughed as Mary recounted the confrontation ...
This biography provides a comprehensive reappraisal of Henry II, the man and king. W.L. Warren explores a whole range of contemporary sources to illuminate ...
Britain Begins is nothing less than the story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from around 10,000BC to the eve ...
Hidden inside all of us - every human being on Earth - is the story of our ancestry. Printed on our DNA are the origins of our ...
A major new biography of the Black Prince.
'A clear-eyed and thrilling vision of the man behind the legend' DAN JONES.
'Pacy, vivid and extremely ...
Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower ...
The adventurous young women who sailed to India during the Raj in search of husbands. From the late 19th century, when the Raj was at ...