Historian and author Ian Stewart picks five of his favourite British history books that tell the stories of a union.

Our history teachers and textbooks have been telling us that the British Industrial Revolution began in the late 18th century ...

History books are also the slowest of slow news ... stretching back from today to Roman Britain, when London was founded as Londinium. We bounce between medieval male brothels; a king (James ...

Collins’ history of the origins of the British revolutionary left is full of interest, and lessons of which to take heed, ...

Meet David Olusoga, the historian reshaping our understanding of history. His work reveals overlooked narratives with ...

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 ...

His greatest book was the 'Ecclesiastical History of the English', a major source for the history of Britain in the immediate post-Roman period.

After the invasion and defeat of France in June 1940, Hitler turned his attention to the invasion of Britain ... The SS’s "Black Book" contained a list of targets, including Churchill and ...

My research focuses on modern Britain, with particular interests in political engagement, popular culture, the media, gender and sexuality. I have written a history of the UK since 1945: United ...

Why Didn't I Know? Britain's Legacy in Palestine Paperback. by Monica Spooner. Publisher: Troubador ISBN: 9781836280750 In ...