What is History, Now?
By: Suzannah Lipscomb
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the influential text WHAT IS HISTORY? authored by Helen Carr’s great-grandfather, E.H. …
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1. Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee
By: John Bew
4.46
Format: 668 pages, Hardcover
Clement Attlee was the Labour prime minister who presided over Britain's radical postwar government… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
2. The Uses and Abuses of History
By: Margaret MacMillan
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
History is useful when it is used properly: to understand why we and those we must deal with think … read more
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- history
- world history
- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
3. Poverty Safari
By: Darren McGarvey
3.87
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more
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- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
4. The Age of Empire, 1875-1914
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.66
Format: None pages, Paperback
Discusses the evolution of European economics, politics, arts, sciences & cultural life from the he… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- world history
5. What Is History?
By: Edward Hallett Carr
4.21
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Based on The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures delivered at University of Cambridge, January-March… read more
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6. In Defence of History
By: Richard J. Evans
3.68
Format: 189 pages, Paperback
E. H. Carr's What Is History?, a classic introduction to the field, may now give way to a worthy su… read more
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7. The Courtiers: Splendor and Intrigue in the Georgian Court at Kensington Palace
By: Lucy Worsley
3.84
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Kensington Palace is now most famous as the former home of Diana, Princess of Wales, but the palace… read more
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8. The Birth of the Modern World, 1780-1914: Global Connections and Comparisons
By: C.A. Bayly
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the w… read more
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9. Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
By: Anna Funder
4.20
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited, and East Germany ceas… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"People were crazy with pain and secrets."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Why are some things easier to remember the more time has passed since they occurred?"-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
"Ten days is time enough to die, to be born, to fall in love and to go mad. Ten days is a very long time."-Anna Funder, Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
10. Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
By: David Mitchell
4.16
Format: 433 pages, ebook
A rollicking history of England's earliest kings and queens, a story of narcissists, excessive behe… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"The defeat of the Armada in 1588 was Elizabeth's high point. Things went downhill after that. Militarily the triumph against Spain was rather undermined the following year when Elizabeth sent her own…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"There were a couple of positives: in 1554, the Queen Regent's Prerogative Act was passed which made explicit, for the first time, that when a woman inherited the throne - became the sovereign, queen …"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Standing jaggedly on Senlac Hill, where Harold Godwinson died, possibly as a result of having taken an arrow to the eye - though possibly more boringly than that, some historians have felt constraine…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
"Queen Mary was known as Bloody Mary because of the large number of people she killed. And also because of misogyny. She was the first properly crowned woman to rule as queen regnant, not just queen c…"-David Mitchell, Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
11. Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.10
Format: 306 pages, Hardcover
In his brilliantly illuminating new book Sathnam Sanghera demonstrates how so much of what we consi… read more
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- history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
"It is puerile to reduce imperial history to a matter of 'good' and 'bad'; trying to weigh up the positive and negative in this way is like defending the morality of kicking a random old man in the sh…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
"After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a po…"-Sathnam Sanghera, Empireland: How Imperialism has Shaped Modern Britain
12. The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
By: Anna Keay
4.39
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
‘The execution of the king took place on a bleak, bitterly cold afternoon in January. As the execut… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
"This book was born of ignorance."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"... he was not one to let other people's feelings get in the way when he knew he was right."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"He warned his pious daughter Bridget of the dangers of self-criticism and the overwhelming importance of love."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
"As in many parts of the country, people's desire for peace and prosperity was stronger than their loyalty to one regime or another."-Anna Keay, The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
13. How Westminster Works . . . and Why It Doesn't
By: Ian Dunt
4.45
Format: 417 pages, Kindle Edition
THE NO.2 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWhy do some prime ministers manage to get things done, while others… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- history and politics
14. Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe
By: Sathnam Sanghera
4.04
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his ground-breaking new book, Sathnam Sanghera traces the legacies of British empire around the … read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
- world history
15. Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages
By: Matthew Green
3.83
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale o… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
16. Thomas Cromwell: A Life
By: Diarmaid MacCulloch
4.10
Format: 728 pages, Hardcover
Thomas Cromwell is one of the most famous - or notorious - figures in English history. Born in obsc… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
17. The Facemaker
By: Lindsey Fitzharris
4.29
Format: 315 pages, Hardcover
Lindsey Fitzharris, the award-winning author of The Butchering Art, presents the compelling, true s… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
18. A Tudor Christmas
By: Alison Weir
4.07
Format: 192 pages, ebook
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking ‘to drive the cold winte… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
19. The Wrath to Come: Gone with the Wind and the Lies America Tells
By: Sarah Churchwell
4.21
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Gone With the Wind, the myth of the Lost Cause and what they can tell us about American history and… read more
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- politics
- history
- nonfiction
20. A Village in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.25
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
New from the author of Travellers in the Third Reich—the Sunday Times Top Three bestseller and Wate… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
21. The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World
By: Malcolm Gaskill
3.72
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
In the frontier town of Springfield in 1651, peculiar things begin to happen. Precious food spoils,… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
22. Travellers in the Third Reich
By: Julia Boyd
4.05
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what’s right in front of your eyes? The e… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"One odd thing Yencken noticed was how much blonder the nation had become since he was last there. According to official statistics over 10 million packets of hair dye were sold in 1934"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"In Dresden, Sylvia Morris witnessed the ransacking of the Jewish department store - Etam's [on Kristallnacht, 9 November 1938]. 'Dresden had been peaceful and not pro-Nazi so this was a major event,'…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
"[William Edward Burghardt] Du Bois saw things rather differently. He argued that it was entirely because of Hitler that Germany had in fact already ‘lapsed into Bolshevism’. In his view, the Nazi gov…"-Julia Boyd, Travellers in the Third Reich
23. The Earth Transformed: An Untold History
By: Peter Frankopan
3.94
Format: 736 pages, Hardcover
A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
24. Fallen Idols: Twelve Statues That Made History
By: Alex von Tunzelmann
4.06
Format: 272 pages, ebook
In this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author o… read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- politics
- nonfiction
- sociology
25. Rule, Nostalgia
By: Hannah Rose Woods
3.99
Format: 394 pages, Hardcover
Britain is an island ruled by nostalgia, but nostalgia today isn't what it used to be... Longing to… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
26. The Bone Chests
By: Cat Jarman
4.06
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
From the brilliant bioarchaeologist and bestselling author of River Kings, a gripping new history o… read more
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- historical
- nonfiction
- history
27. What is History, Now?
By: Suzannah Lipscomb
4.15
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Inspired by the influential text WHAT IS HISTORY? authored by Helen Carr’s great-grandfather, E.H. … read more
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- history
- world history
- historical
- politics
- read for school
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- essays
- history and politics
- sociology
28. Northerners: A History
By: Brian Groom
3.62
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A Times Bestseller A Waterstones ‘Book You Need to Read in 2022’ The definitive history of t… read more
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- historical
- politics
- history
- nonfiction
29. Truss at 10: How Not to Be Prime Minister
By: Anthony Seldon
4.36
Format: 403 pages, Kindle Edition
Liz Truss's disastrous premiership was the shortest and most chaotic in British history. In the spa… read more
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