Linda Porter

This Earth, This Realm, This Castile

The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster

By Helen Carr

Peter Davidson

Mighty Contests & Trivial Things

Alexander Pope in the Making

By Joseph Hone

Benjamin Riley

Don’t Ask to Use the Bathroom

The English Folly: The Edifice Complex

By Gwyn Headley & Wim Meulenkamp

Richard Acton

A Blue Robe For Poor Henry

Lancaster & York: The Wars of the Roses

By Alison Weir

Catherine McIlwaine

Tolkien at the Crossroads

Lucy Lethbridge

Out of Lanarkshire

Motherwell: A Girlhood

By Deborah Orr

Jonathan Sumption

Bringing Up the Bodies

The Brothers York: An English Tragedy

By Thomas Penn

Richard III: The Self-Made King

By Michael Hicks

Charles Elliott

The £569 Pineapple

An Economic History of the English Garden

By Roderick Floud

Elizabeth Longford

Womanly Behaviour

Girls Growing Up in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

By Carol Dyhouse

Ee Bah Gum

On Ilkley Moor: The Story of an English Town

Asa Briggs

The Paradoxes of Progress

The Face of the Past: the Preservation of the Medieval Inheritance in Victorian England

By Charles Dellheim

Caroline Moore

Among the Members of a Quartet

An Equal Music

By Vikram Seth

Jonathan Meades

England’s California?

The Buildings of England: Dorset

By Michael Hill, John Newman & Nikolaus Pevsner

Mark Redhead

Visionary Vales

Land of the Vales

By Melvyn Bragg

Keith Waterhouse

‘Ave a Good Laff

Up North: Travels Beyond the Watford Gap

By Charles Jennings