History
Essential books illuminating key periods of history, from the Romans to the Tudors to World War 1. Delve into the history of England with Peter Ackroyd, explore Britain’s forgotten multicultural past with David Olusoga, or uncover the violent rise of early Christianity with Catherine Nixey.
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Margaret George’s favourite stories of the Roman Empire.

Chancellors
Roy Jenkins

Unholy War
David I. Kertzer

About The Size Of It
Warwick Cairns

Empire's Crossroads
Carrie Gibson

Some Desperate Glory
Max Egremont

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir
Jean Trumpington

Churchill's Empire
Richard Toye

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Helen Rappaport

I Wish I'd Been There
Byron Hollinshead
Theodore Rabb

Queen of the Desert
Georgina Howell

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller

Give Me Ten Seconds
John Sergeant

The Seventies Unplugged
Gerard DeGroot

Act Of God
Graham Phillips

Passions Between Women
Emma Donoghue

Last Letters Home
Tamasin Day-Lewis

Lloyd George and Churchill
Richard Toye

The Little Captive
Lise Kristensen

Good Eating
Telegraph Group Limited

The Ancient Paths
Graham Robb

The Restoration of Rome
Peter Heather

Flat Earth
Christine Garwood

More What If?
Robert Cowley

Flappers
Judith Mackrell

The Crystal Bucket
Clive James

The Dreaming Swimmer
Clive James

At the Pillars of Hercules
Clive James

The Metropolitan Critic
Clive James

The Wreck at Sharpnose Point
Jeremy Seal

Small Wars, Far Away Places
Michael Burleigh

A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar

Harvest
Jim Crace

Churchill's First War
Con Coughlin

Simply the Best Baby Name Book
Stuart Wilson

Even As We Speak
Clive James

The Generation Game
David McWilliams

The Burma Road
Donovan Webster

Christ's

The Boys In The Boat
Daniel James Brown

The Lonely Leader
Alistair Horne
David Montgomery