Felipe Fernandez-Armesto

They Mistook Kenya for the Home Counties

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw their Empire

By David Cannadine

John Keay

In Cold Blood

Amritsar 1919: An Empire of Fear and the Making of a Massacre

By Kim A Wagner

The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

By Anita Anand

Michael Burleigh

Dreaming of Rhodesia?

Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present

By Robert Gildea

Jane Ridley

Going Jungly

The British in India: Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

By David Gilmour

Bijan Omrani

Great Game Changer

Afghanistan in the Age of Empires

By Farrukh Husain

Frank Prochaska

Transatlantic Tussles

The Lion and the Eagle: The Interaction of the British and American Empires 1783–1972

By Kathleen Burk

John Keay

From Kensington to Kathmandu

The Last Englishmen: Love, War and the End of Empire

By Deborah Baker

John Keay

Reading the Leaves

A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World

By Erika Rappaport

Felipe Fernández-Armesto

All They Could Eat

The Hungry Empire: How Britain’s Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World

By Lizzie Collingham

Anne Somerset

The Heat is On

One Hot Summer: Dickens, Darwin, Disraeli, and the Great Stink of 1858

By Rosemary Ashton

John Keay

Bristling with Raj

Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India

By Shashi Tharoor

Kyril FitzLyon

Human Cargo

Children of the Empire

By Gillian Wagner

David Gilmour

Colonial Conundrums

India Conquered: Britain’s Raj and the Chaos of Empire

By Jon Wilson

Leslie Mitchell

Great Expectations

Heyday: Britain and the Birth of the Modern World

By Ben Wilson

Jan Morris

It’s the Taking Part that Counts

Heroic Failure and the British

By Stephanie Barczewski