Paul Johnson

Ideas in Action

The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Frances Wilson

A Champion of Women

Queen of the Wits: A Life of Laetitia Pilkington

By Norma Clarke

Paul Johnson

Painter of All Nature

George Stubbs, Painter: Catalogue raisonné

By Judy Egerton

Leslie Mitchell

Keeping an Eye on the Neighbours

Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783

By Brendan Simms

Jonathan Keates

Palazzo Plunkett

Lucia in the Age of Napoleon

By Andrea di Robilant

Saul David

Better Than The Romans

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781–1997

By Piers Brendon

Nigel Jones

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash

The Line Upon a Wind: An Intimate History of the Last and Greatest War Fought at Sea Under Sail, 1793–1815

By Noel Mostert

Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Admiral Thomas Cochrane, 1775–1860

By David Cordingly

Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1809

By Stephen Taylor

Leo McKinstry

Pioneers at Work

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

By Gavin Weightman

John Martin Robinson

By Religious Design

God’s Architect: Pugin and the Building of Romantic Britain

By Rosemary Hill

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

Andrew Roberts

As Emperor Apparent

Napoleon: The Path to Power 1769–1799

By Philip Dwyer

Allan Massie

Dressed To Be Killed

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

By Lucy Moore

Scott Mandelbrote

A Man and His Myth

Newton

By Peter Ackroyd

Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson

Heads Will Roll

The Terror: Civil War in the French Revolution

By David Andress

Nigel Jones

An Uncivil War

1776: When Britain and America Went to War

By David McCullough

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