Leo McKinstry

Pioneers at Work

The Industrial Revolutionaries: The Creation of the Modern World 1776–1914

By Gavin Weightman

Michael Burleigh

Failed States

The Force of Destiny: A History of Italy Since 1796

By Christopher Duggan

Jonathan Mirsky

Creation Myth

The Fourth of July and the Founding of America

By Peter de Bolla

Allan Massie

Dressed To Be Killed

Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

By Lucy Moore

Adrian Tinniswood

Vile Bodies

Queen Anne: The Politics of Passion

By Anne Somerset

Kwasi Kwarteng

The Brute Facts

Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt

By Richard Gott

Vernon Bogdanor

Lion, Harp & Unicorn

The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707–2007

By Alvin Jackson

Leslie Mitchell

Capital Gains

London in the Eighteenth Century: A Great and Monstrous Thing

By Jerry White

Edward Vallance

The Revolution Will Not Be Realised

The Road Not Taken: How Britain Narrowly Missed a Revolution

By Frank McLynn

Raymond Seitz

A Realistic Visionary

His Excellency George Washington

By Joseph J Ellis

Frank McLynn

The Deadly Decorator

John the Painter: Britain’s First International Terrorist

By Jessica Warner

Nicholas Bagnall

More than Words

Dr Johnson’s Dictionary: The Extraordinary Story of the Book that Defined the World

By Henry Hitchings

Vanessa Collingridge

Breaking the Waves

Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans

By Brian Fagan

Robert Bickers

Beyond the Great Wall

Restless Empire: China and the World Since 1750

By Odd Arne Westad

Charles Esdaile

Against the Odds

The Savage Storm: Britain on the Brink in the Age of Napoleon

By David Andress

Jonathan Sumption

Trial by Sword

The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War

By James Q Whitman

Tim Blanning

What Now, Little Man?

Napoleon: Volume 1 – Soldier of Destiny, 1769–1805

By Michael Broers

Darrin M McMahon

Fighting Philosophers

Revolutionary Ideas: An Intellectual History of the French Revolution from The Rights of Man to Robespierre

By Jonathan Israel

Norma Clarke

London with the Many Sins

The First Bohemians: Life and Art in London’s Golden Age

By Vic Gatrell

The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London

By Hannah Greig