The origins of the city of London date back to the days of the Roman Empire. In the 2000 years since, this great city along the Thames has seen its...

My brother officers. Are they human? Thus reads the first journal entry of twenty-three-year-old John Verney, graduate of Eton and Oxford, lover of...

Bill Arnott guides readers on an epic literary odyssey following history’s most feared and misunderstood voyageurs: the Vikings! To go Viking is to...

Great Britain and the American Civil War is the telling of what the American Civil War meant to Great Britain; how she regarded it and how she reac...

An essential and concise reference guide to the final resting places of the monarchs of England. Through 234 illustrations and photos, learn the tr...

Protestant v Catholic, Unionist v Nationalist, East v West, their team against my team. This is the story of Northern Irish football and so much mo...

A historian's historian, F W Maitland was never to be caught indulging in fanciful speculation about times long past. Rather, he said, "We shall ha...

A historian's historian, F W Maitland was never to be caught indulging in fanciful speculation about times long past. Rather, he said, "We shall ha...

Consists of three parts, concerned with the most substantive revolutions in English government and manners: from the Saxon settlement to the Norman...

Consists of three parts, concerned with the most substantive revolutions in English government and manners: from the Saxon settlement to the Norman...

David Hume's great, enduring reputation in philosophy tends to obscure the fact that, among his contemporaries, his history of England was a more s...

David Hume's great, enduring reputation in philosophy tends to obscure the fact that, among his contemporaries, his history of England was a more s...

David Hume's great, enduring reputation in philosophy tends to obscure the fact that, among his contemporaries, his history of England was a more s...

David Hume's great, enduring reputation in philosophy tends to obscure the fact that, among his contemporaries, his history of England was a more s...

The clash between Britain and Ireland--and between Catholics and Protestants within Ireland--is among the oldest and most enduring nationalist, eth...

The clash between Britain and Ireland--and between Catholics and Protestants within Ireland--is among the oldest and most enduring nationalist, eth...

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century uses diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records to exami...

In a landmark work, a leading scholar of the eighteenth century uses diaries, personal correspondence, newspapers, and legislative records to exami...

In the present volume an attempt is made to trace the growth of the general principles of medieval fortification, with special reference to castles...

Orb and Sceptre brings together recent cutting-edge work on British imperialism by Australian researchers closely associated with Norman Etheringto...

Written for the beginning student as well as the experienced scholar, this introductory analysis of the origin and early development or the English...

This study considers sixteenth century evangelicals’ vision of a ‘godly’ commonwealth within the broader context of political, religious, social, a...

Unlike the first two volumes of "ANGLES" on the English-Speaking World, this special issue does not originate in a set of conference papers. The id...

This new collection of essays based upon a conference at the University of Huddersfield, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, explore...