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Callum Watson
1314: The Year of BannockburnThe Battle of Bannockburn has long been recogni...The Battle of Bannockburn has long been recognised as one of the most influential moments in Scottish history. The fighting that took place on 23rd and 24th June 1314 is frequently presented as a s... -
Alan Johnson
Harold WilsonHarold Wilson was one of the most successful po...Harold Wilson was one of the most successful politicians of the twentieth century. Prime Minister from 1964-70, and again from 1974-76, he won four elections as well as a referendum on UK membershi... -
Prit Buttar
To Besiege a City : Leningrad 1941–42Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Bo...Shortlisted for the Military History Matters Book of the Year Award 2024. A ground-breaking history of one of the greatest ever sieges. Masterfully brought to life by a leading expert using origina... -
Prit Buttar
Hero CityOne of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully ...One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, strugg... -
Kathryn Hughes
Catland : Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern WorldSome called it a craze. To others it was a cult...Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era. ‘He invented a whole cat world’... -
Leslie Hills
10 Scotland Street10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh ...10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections over two cen... -
William Dalrymple
The Golden RoadIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient wor...India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, re... -
Tessa Boase, Etta Lemon
The woman who saved the birdsRead the fascinating story of one of the greate...Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our tim... -
Martin Sixsmith
The War of NervesMore than any other conflict, the Cold War was ...More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o... -
Martin Sixsmith
Putin and the return of historyAn original history of Russia's thousand-year p...An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped ... -
Eleanor Barnett
LeftoversA topical and richly entertaining history of fo...A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingen... -
Wendy Moore
Jack and EveVera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a j...Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fo...
