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

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

John Martin Robinson

By Religious Design

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

By Rosemary Hill

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

James Le Fanu

Pickled Parts

The Knife Man: The Extraordinary Life and Times of John Hunter, the Father of Modern Surgery

By Wendy Moore

Selina O’Grady

A Life of Experiment

Mary Wollstonecraft: A New Genus

By Lyndall Gordon

Saul David

Cry Freedom

Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery

By Adam Hochschild

Human Cargo: A Journey Among Refugees

By Caroline Moorehead

Nicholas Bagnall

More than Words

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

By Henry Hitchings

Catherine Peters

Feminist Fatale

The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton

By Diane Atkinson

Claire Harman

How They Roared

Mr Foote’s Other Leg: Comedy, Tragedy and Murder in Georgian London

By Ian Kelly

Gillian Darley

Unfinished Business

James Wyatt: Architect to George III

By John Martin Robinson

Charles Esdaile

Against the Odds

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

By David Andress

Patricia Fara

You Do the Math

Poor Robin’s Prophecies: A curious Almanac, and the everyday mathematics of Georgian Britain

By Benjamin Wardhaugh