Paul Johnson

Ideas in Action

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

By Gertrude Himmelfarb

Leslie Mitchell

Pistols in Putney

The Duel: Castlereagh, Canning and Deadly Cabinet Rivalry

By Giles Hunt

Blair Worden

The Pen & the Sword

God’s Fury, England’s Fire: A New History of the English Civil Wars

By Michael Braddick

John Adamson

Pursuit of the Pastoral

Earls of Paradise: England and the Dream of Perfection

By Adam Nicolson

Andrew Roberts

House of Windsor

Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work

By Robert Hardman

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

Justin Marozzi

Tewodros the Tragic

The Barefoot Emperor: An Ethiopian Tragedy

By Philip Marsden

Raymond Seitz

Puritan’s Progress

Pilgrims: New World Settlers and the Call of Home

By Susan Hardman Moore

David Watkin

Trading Places

Moving Rooms: The Trade in Architectural Salvages

By John Harris

Stephen Halliday

Trainspotting

Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain

By Christian Wolmar

Saul David

Out of the Turmoil

Diamonds, Gold and War: The Making of South Africa

By Martin Meredith

Frederick Taylor

Dramatic Divide

Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War

By Patrick Wright

David Butler

At the Ballot Box

Politics and the People: A History of British Democracy Since 1918

By Kevin Jefferys

Simon Heffer

This House of Worship

A Little History of the English Country Church

By Roy Strong

Paul Johnson

What War?

1812: War with America

By Jon Latimer

Dominic Sandbrook

That Special Relationship

Old World, New World: The Story of Britain and America

By Kathleen Burk

Saul David

Better Than The Romans

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

By Piers Brendon

William Anthony Hay

London Burning

The First Day of the Blitz

By Peter Stansky

Sarah Wise

The Great Pretender

The Tichborne Claimant: A Victorian Sensation

By Rohan McWilliam

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