The Great Partition – 50 Years in 50 Books
First published in 2007, The Great Partition by Yasmin Khan offers a reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between…
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Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
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Why I Became an X Troop Commando
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
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Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
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What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
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A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
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In Search of the River Jordan
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What is ‘Liveliness’ in Tudor art? By Dr Christina Faraday
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Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
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Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
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Why I Became an X Troop Commando
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Six People Who Shaped Madrid
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Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
Read More -
What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
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A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
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75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
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In Search of the River Jordan
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What is ‘Liveliness’ in Tudor art? By Dr Christina Faraday
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Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
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Britons – 50 Years in 50 Books
Britons was first published in 1992. In Britons, Linda Colley examines how a more cohesive British nation was invented after 1707 and how this…
The Gentleman’s Daughter – 50 Years in 50 Books
Winner of the 1999 Wolfson History Prize, The Gentleman’s Daughter invokes women’s own accounts of their intimate and public lives to reveal what the…
Collapse – 50 Years in 50 Books
Published in 2021, Vladislav Zubok’s book Collapse is a major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union—showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to…
How the Georgians Celebrated Christmas – by Penelope J. Corfield
In The Georgians, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life – politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and…
Arabs – 50 Years in 50 Books
First published in 2019, Arabs explores almost 3,000 years of Arab history. Tracing this history to the origins of the Arabic language, Tim Mackintosh-Smith’s…
The Vory – 50 Years in 50 Books
Mark Galeotti’s book The Vory is the first English-language book to document the men who emerged from the gulags to become Russia’s much-feared crime…
Our NHS – 50 Years in 50 Books
Our NHS is an engaging, inclusive history of the NHS, exploring its surprising survival and the people who have kept it running. Andrew Seaton’s…
The Gunpowder Plot: ‘The Most Horrible Treason’
5 November, 1605: A plot to blow up the House of Lords with gunpowder is thwarted when explosives expert Guy Fawkes is caught red-handed…
Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
In this article, author of Art of the Grimoire, Owen Davies has chosen seven texts – from across time and geographies – that show…
A Little History of the World – 50 Years in 50 Books
Rather than focusing on dry facts and dates, E. H. Gombrich’s A Little History of the World vividly brings the full span of human…
Heretics and Believers – 50 Years in 50 Books
Heretics and Believers, a history of the English Reformation, was first published in 2017. Centuries on, what the Reformation was and what it accomplished…
Backbone of the Nation – 50 Years in 50 Books
In his groundbreaking new history, Robert Gildea interviews the miners and their families who fought to defend themselves against Thatcher’s goverment. Exploring mining communities…
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes – 50 Years in 50 Books
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes draws on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, to create an intellectual history of…
A Curious Tour of Dickens’s London
From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of…