Category:History

G

• Gallipoli by Peter Hart
• The Games We Played by Susan Kelleher
• Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die: British and Irish Plant-Lore by Roy Vickery
• Girl in a Green Gown: The History and Mystery of the Arnolfini Portrait by Carola Hicks
• Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language by Robert McCrum
• The Golden Cage: Three Brothers, Three Choices, One Destiny by Shirin Ebadi
• The Good Old Days by Gilda O'Neill
• The Grand Slave Emporium: Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade by William St Clair
• A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain by Marc Morris
• The Great Famine: Ireland's Agony 1845-1852 by Ciaran O Murchadha
• The Great Silence: 1918-1920 Living in the Shadow of the Great War by Juliet Nicolson
• The Great War by Peter Hart
• Guernica and Total War by Ian Patterson
• Guilt About the Past by Bernhard Schlink

H

• Hancox by Charlotte Moore
• Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons by Ann Rinaldi
• Having It So Good: Britain in the Fifties by Peter Hennessy
• The Hemlock Cup: Socrates, Athens and the Search for the Good Life by Bettany Hughes
• HHhH by Laurent Binet
• A History of England in 100 Places: From Stonehenge to the Gherkin by John Julius Norwich
• A History of English Food by Clarissa Dickson Wright
• A History of Football in 100 Objects by Gavin Mortimer
• A History of Modern Britain by Andrew Marr
• A History of Warfare by John Keegan
• History Without the Boring Bits by Ian Crofton
• Hitler's Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life by Timothy W Ryback
• Holy Warriors: A Modern History of the Crusades by Jonathan Phillips
• Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
• The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen by Kwame Anthony Appiah
• Hops and Glory: One Man's Search for the Beer That Built the British Empire by Pete Brown
• How to Climb Mont Blanc in a Skirt: A Handbook for the Lady Adventurer by Mick Conefrey
• How to Research Local History by Pamela Brooks
• How to Survive the Titanic or the Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay by Frances Wilson

I

• I Believe in Yesterday: My Adventures in Living History by Tim Moore
• I Wish I'd Been There: Twenty Historians Revisit Key Moments in History by Byron Hollinshead and Theodore K Rabb (editors)
• The Immortal Dinner: A famous evening of genius and laughter in literary London, 1817 by Penelope Hughes-Hallett
• Inconvenient People: Lunacy, Liberty and the Mad-Doctors in Victorian England by Sarah Wise
• Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943 by Keith Lowe
• Into the Heart of the Mafia: A Journey Through the Italian South by David Lane
• Intrepid Woman: Betty Lussier's Secret War, 1942-1945 by Betty Lussier
• Invisible Romans: Prostitutes, Outlaws, Slaves, Gladiators, Ordinary Men and Women … the Romans that History Forgot by Robert Knapp
• An Island in Time: The Biography of a Village by Geert Mak
• The Isle of Man: Portrait of a Nation by John Grimson

J

• Jacobs Beach: The Mob, the Garden, and the Golden Age of Boxing by Kevin Mitchell
• A Journey Through Ruins: The Last Days of London by Patrick Wright
• A Journey to Nowhere: Among the Lands and History of Courland by Jean-Paul Kauffmann
• Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield

K

• Kamikaze: History's Greatest Naval Disaster by James Delgado
• Katherine Swynford by Alison Weir
• The Kennedy Assassination: 24 Hours After by Steven M Gillon
• Killing Hitler by Roger Moorhouse
• King's Mistress, Queen's Servant: Henrietta Howard by Tracy Borman
• The Kingmaker's Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses by David Baldwin

L

• The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn by Alison Weir
• The Last Days of Richard III by John Ashdown-Hill
• The Last Days of the Incas by Kim MacQuarrie
• The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Big Horn by Nathaniel Philbrick
• Legacy of Ashes by Tim Weiner
• Leonardo's Legacy: How Da Vinci Reinvented the World by Stefan Klein
• Listening to Britain: Home Intelligence Reports on Britain's Finest Hour, May-September 1940 by Paul Addison and Jeremy A Crang
• London in the 18th century by Jerry White
• London Under by Peter Ackroyd
• London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750 by Robert O Bucholz and Joseph P Ward
• London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
• London: The Illustrated History by Cathy Ross and John Clark
• The Long Road Home: The Aftermath of the Second World War by Ben Shephard
• The Lost City of Z: A Legendary British Explorer's Deadly Quest to Uncover the Secrets of the Amazon by David Grann

L cont.

• The Lost Mona Lisa by R A Scotti
• Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History by Nick Barratt
• The Lotus Quest by Mark Griffiths
• A Lucky Child by Thomas Buergenthal

M

• Machiavelli: A Life Beyond Ideology by Paul Oppenheimer
• Made to last: The story of Britain's best-known shoe firm by Mark Palmer
• The Madness of Queen Maria: The Remarkable Life of Maria I of Portugal by Jenifer Roberts
• Mafia Brotherhoods: The Rise of the Italian Mafias by John Dickie
• The Magnetic North: Travels in the Arctic by Sara Wheeler
• A Magnificent Disaster: The Failure of the Market Garden, the Arnhem Operation, September 1944 by David Bennett
• Making Haste from Babylon: The Mayflower Pilgrims and Their World: A New History by Nick Bunker
• The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle
• The Masters of Manton: From Alec Taylor to George Todd by Paul Mathieu
• Matilda: Wife of the Conqueror, first Queen of England by Tracy Borman
• Maus by Art Spiegelman
• Medieval Intrigue: Decoding Royal Conspiracies by Ian Mortimer
• The Memorial to the Missing of the Somme by Gavin Stamp
• The Memory Chalet by Tony Judt
• MetaMAUS by Art Spiegelman
• Mission Accomplished: SOE and Italy 1943 - 1945 by David Stafford
• Modernism: The Lure of Heresy - From Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond by Peter Gay
• The Moon and Madness by Niall McCrae
• Moscow 1941: A City and Its People at War by Rodric Braithwaite
• Murder in the High Himalaya by Jonathan Green

N

• Nazi Millionaires: The Allied Search for Hidden SS Gold by Kenneth D Alford and Theodore P Savas
• Nella Last in the 1950s: The Further Diaries of Housewife, 49 by Patricia Malcolmson and Robert Malcolmson (Editors)
• Nella Last's Peace: The Post-war Diaries of Housewife 49 by Patricia Malcolmson (Editor), Robert Malcolmson (Editor)
• Nelson, Hitler and Diana by Richard D Ryder
• Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein
• No Turning Back: The Peacetime Revolutions of Post-War Britain by Paul Addison
• Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round by Doreen Rappaport
• The Norman Conquest by Marc Morris

O

• Obama Music by Bonnie Greer
• Of the People, By the People: A New History of Democracy by Roger Osborne
• On Farting: Bodily Wind in the Middle Ages by Valerie Allen
• On the Eve: The Jews of Europe before the Second World War by Bernard Wasserstein
• One Bloody Thing After Another by Jacob F Field
• One Minute to Midnight: Kennedy, Krushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War by Michael Dobbs
• Oranges and Lemons: Rhymes From Past Times by Karen Dolby
• Orpheus, The Song Of Life by Ann Wroe
• The Other Side of the Night: The Carpathia, the Californian, and the Night the Titanic Was Lost by Daniel Allen Butler
• Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War by Sandra Koa Wing
• Out Of Africa by Karen Blixen
• Over the Wide and Trackless Sea: the Pioneer Women and Girls of New Zealand by Megan Hutching

P

• Palestinian Walks: Notes from a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh
• Paper Houses by Michele Roberts
• The Parthenon by Mary Beard
• The Passion of the Western Mind: Understanding the Ideas That Have Shaped Our World View by Richard Tarnas
• Patrick Bronte: Father of Genius by Dudley Green
• Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Very British Coup by Christopher de Bellaigue
• The Perfect Nazi: Uncovering My SS Grandfather's Secret Past and How Hitler Seduced a Generation by Martin Davidson
• Philip Ardagh's Book of Kings, Queens, Emperors and Rotten Wart-Nosed Commoners by Philip Ardagh
• Pirates Of Barbary: Corsairs, Conquests and Captivity in the 17th-Century Mediterranean by Adrian Tinniswood
• Pistols at Dawn: Two Hundred Years of Political Rivalry from Pitt and Fox to Blair and Brown by John Campbell
• Pitt the Elder: Man of War by Edward Pearce
• Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town by Mary Beard
• The Popes: A History by John Julius Norwich
• The Princes In The Tower by Alison Weir

Q

• Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar
• Queen Elizabeth II: Her Life in Our Times by Sarah Bradford
• The Queen's Knight by Martyn Downer

R

• Raffles And the Golden Opportunity by Victoria Glendinning
• A Rainbow in the Night by Dominique Lapierre
• The Refuge and the Fortress: Britain and the Flight From Tyranny by Jeremy Seabrook
• The Reluctant Tommy: An Extraordinary Memoir of the First World War by Ronald Skirth and Duncan Barrett
• The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes by Stephen Robinson
• Remember, Remember the Fifth of November by James Sharpe

R cont.

• The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis by Matthew Cobb
• Return to the Middle Kingdom by Yuan-Tsung Chen
• The Ring and the Crown: A History of Royal Weddings 1066-2011 by Alison Weir, Kate Williams, Sarah Gristwood and Tracy Borman
• The Rise and Fall of Communism by Archie Brown
• The Rise and Fall of Marks & Spencer: ...and How It Rose Again by Judi Bevan
• The Rosetta Stone by John Ray
• A Royal Affair: George III and His Troublesome Siblings by Stella Tillyard
• The Ruin of the Roman Empire by James J O'Donnell
• Running the Show: Governors of the British Empire 1857-1912 by Stephanie Williams
• Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East by Martin Sixsmith
• Ruth Maier's Diary: A Young Girl's Life Under Nazism by Ruth Maier, Jamie Bulloch (Translator) and Jan Erik Vold (Editor)

S

• Safe As Houses? A Historical Analysis of Property Prices by Neil Monnery
• Saints, Sacrilege and Sedition by Eamon Duffy
• Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation by Edward B Barbier
• Science: A Four Thousand Year History by Patricia Fara
• The Scourging Angel: The Black Death in the British Isles by Benedict Gummer
• The Sea Captain's Wife: A True Story of Love, Race and War in the Nineteenth Century by Martha Hodes
• Sea of Faith by Stephen O'Shea
• Sealing Their Fate: 22 Days That Decided the Second World War by David Downing
• The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir
• The Secret Life of War: Journeys Through Modern Conflict by Peter Beaumont
• The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery by Catherine Bailey
• A Senseless Squalid War: Voices From Palestine 1890s - 1948 by Norman Rose
• A Serious Endeavour: Gender, Education and Community at St Hugh's, 1886-2011 by Laura Schwartz
• Shadow of the Titanic by Andrew Wilson
• Shadows Of The Workhouse: The Drama Of Life In Postwar London by Jennifer Worth
• Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer
• Shapely Ankle Preferr'd: A History of the Lonely Hearts Advertisement by Francesca Beauman
• Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper: A Sweet-sour Memoir of Eating in China by Fuchsia Dunlop
• A Short History of England by Simon Jenkins
• Signing Their Rights Away by Denise Kiernan
• The Sixties by Jenny Diski
• The Smell of the Continent by Richard Mullen and James Munson
• The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Sons, Servants and Statesmen: The Men in Queen Victoria's Life by John Van der Kiste
• The Sorcerer's Tale: Faith and Fraud in Tudor England by Alec Ryrie
• Speak for Britain!: A New History of the Labour Party by Martin Pugh
• The Spirit of Venice: From Marco Polo to Casanova by Paul Strathern
• St Pancras Station by Simon Bradley
• St Peter's (Wonders of the World) by Keith Miller
• Star of the Morning: The Extraordinary Life of Lady Hester Stanhope by Kirsten Ellis
• The Story of Britain by Patrick Dillon and P J Lynch
• The Story of India by Michael Wood
• The Strategy Of Antelopes: Rwanda After the Genocide by Jean Hatzfeld
• Supermac: The Life of Harold Macmillan by D R Thorpe
• Sweet Water and Bitter: The Ships That Stopped the Slave Trade by Sian Rees
• Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office by Lynn Peril

T

• Taking the Medicine by Druin Burch
• Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
• The Templars: History and Myth: From Solomon's Temple to the Freemasons by Michael Haag
• The Fourth Part of the World: The Epic Story of History's Greatest Map by Toby Lester
• The Glorious First of June: Fleet Battle in the Reign of Terror by Sam Willis
• The Making of Modern Britain: From Queen Victoria to V.E. Day by Andrew Marr
• The Road Not Taken: How Britain narrowly missed a revolution by Frank McLynn
• The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century by Ian Mortimer
• Thinking the Twentieth Century by Tony Judt and Timothy Snyder
• This Is Paradise by Hyok Kang
• This Little Britain by Harry Bingham
• Thomas Paine: His Life, His Time and the Birth of the Modern Nations by Craig Nelson
• The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England by Ian Mortimer
• To Save a People by Alex Kershaw
• The Tomb of Agamemnon by Cathy Gere
• Tower by Nigel Jones
• Trautmann's Journey: From Hitler Youth to FA Cup Legend by Catrine Clay
• Treblinka: A Survivor's Memory by Chil Rajchman
• The Sun King by Nancy Mitford