Used for many centuries for administrative and legal purposes, the Domesday Book is the starting point for most local historians researching the history of their area and there are several ...

One lesson of The British Are Coming is the history-shaping power of individuals exercising their agency together: the volition of those who shouldered muskets in opposition to an empire.

The world of British fiction has fascinated us for more than two centuries. Great authors, unforgettable heroines and complex plots have forged a literary heritage rich in emotion. Read on for a ...

From biographies to eyewitness accounts, these 6 books shed powerful light on the Jallianwala Bagh massacre and its enduring ...

Perhaps the greatest unsolved mystery in British royal history is that of the Princes in the Tower. In 1483, The Princes Edward (Edward V of England) and Richard (Duke of York) were just 12 and 9 ...

My most recent book is Everyday Politics, Ordinary Lives: A New History of British Democracy, 1918-1992 (Oxford University Press, 2024). The book examines how British citizens understood politics and ...

Now, he has written a short history of British architecture ... But in its final 70 pages, the book "comes flamingly to life", as a "blistering polemic" against the postwar planners and architects ...