Bernard Porter

This Sundered Isle

Geography is Destiny: Britain and the World, a 10,000-Year History

By Ian Morris

Alan Allport

The Right to Lay Down Arms

Battles of Conscience: British Pacifists and the Second World War

By Tobias Kelly

Brian Dillon

Shutter Island

Another Country: British Documentary Photography Since 1945

By Gerry Badger

Richard Canning

Modern Old Master

Glyn Philpot: Flesh and Spirit

By Simon Martin

Exhibition at Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, until 23 October

William Kuhn

What the Butler Saw

The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor – The Truth and the Turmoil

By Tina Brown

Richard Vinen

The Past is Another Country

Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain

By Hannah Rose Woods

Stephen Taylor

From Out the Azure Main

The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels

By Tom Nancollas

Richard Cockett

Anyone for Fraud?

Butler to the World: How Britain Became the Servant of Tycoons, Tax Dodgers, Kleptocrats and Criminals

By Oliver Bullough

Piers Brendon

Kiss & Shell

False Prophets: British Leaders’ Fateful Fascination with the Middle East from Suez to Syria

By Nigel Ashton

Richard Cockett

The Case for Reparations

White Debt: The Demerara Uprising and Britain’s Legacy of Slavery

By Thomas Harding

Freya Johnston

Squalor & Sublimity

The Georgians: The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain

By Penelope J Corfield

David A H B Taylor

Pomp & Pleasure

Palaces of Revolution: Life, Death and Art at the Stuart Court

By Simon Thurley

Frances Spalding

Candid Canvas

Humankind: Ruskin Spear – Class, Culture and Art in 20th-Century Britain

By Tanya Harrod