Book Review: Wellington, The Path to Victory
/A massive new biography serves to remind us that war and politics were always intricately connected in the life of the Duke of Wellington
Read MoreBook Review: Churchill and the King
/King George VI and Winston Churchill forged a remarkable working relationship during the trying years of World War II - a new book looks at how it happened, and why
Read MoreBook Review: Naturalists at Sea
/When the South Pacific opened up for Western exploration, 'experimental gentlemen' swarmed there to make discoveries - and to make history
Read MoreBook Review: In the Olden Time
/Victorian historical painting and Victorian historical fiction met in a glorious collaboration of national mythology. Andrew Sanders, in a magnificent new study from Yale University Press, gives that collaboration a delightfully thorough questioning.
Read MoreBook Review: The Anglo-Saxon World
/A wonderfully-illutrated new volume brings together the latest research about the glittering era that brought us the Sutton Hoo treasure, the epic of Beowulf, and the deep sediment of law
Read MoreBook Review: Nelson - The Sword of Albion
/A monumental deck-clearing two-volume biography of Admiral Horatio Nelson reaches its thundering conclusion
Read MoreBook Review: The Plantagenets
/Using castles and cunning, swords and statesmanship, guile and guts, they ruled England (and big chunks of France) for over two centuries - they were the Plantagenets, and they're the subject of a boisterous new history
Read MoreBook Review: Britain Begins
/Long, long before Canute and the Confessor, England was a fascinating place - the great archaeologist Barry Cunliffe tells the tale!
Read MoreBook Review: Blood Sisters
/Sarah Gristwood (author of the utterly delightful "Arbella: England's Lost Queen") charts the triumphs and tragedies of the seven key women in the Wars of the Roses
Read MoreBook Review: Foundation
/the irrepressible novelist, lecturer, and historian takes us on a battle-filled, ale-soaked ransacking tour of England's long pre-Tudor history
Read MoreBook Review: The Romans Who Shaped Britain
/A lively new personality-driven look at the centuries of Roman rule in the British Isles
Read MoreWife Number Five
/Teenage Catherine Howard weds the older and ailing Henry VIII to serve her family's ambition, and uses her status to take lovers of her own - risking everything. Novelist Suzannah Dunn spins a fine tale out of the girl's brief rise and fall.
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