History Books
This section collects together a range of books, some of which relate to activities on the site and some of which are here simply because they're interesting or may prove useful.
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by Adrian Tinniswood By Permission of Heaven: The Story of the Great Fire of London |
by Sean Cunningham |
A collection of source material by Elisabeth van Houts |
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by Alistair Dunn The Peasants' Revolt: England's Failed Revolution of 1381 (Revealing History) |
by Nigel Cawthorne |
by Katherine Knight |
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by Robert Winder |
by Bill Bryson |
by John O'Farrell An Utterly Impartial History of Britain: (or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots In Charge) |
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by Guy Walters |
by John Hatcher |
by Ian Mortimer The Time-traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century |
About the Paston family and the Wars of the Roses by Helen Castor |
by David Knyaston |
Not just about cricket - an excellent social history. MORE ... by Duncan Hamilton |
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by Dan Lyndon |
 The Daughter of Time, the original mystery investigation into the Princes in the Tower from 1951, by Josephine Tey. |
 by Charles Carleton Going to the Wars: Experience of the British Civil Wars, 1638-51 |
by Stephen Porter Destruction in the English Civil Wars (Illustrated History Paperbacks) |
 by David Cooke The Civil War in Yorkshire: Fairfax Versus Newcastle (Battlefield Britain) |
 by Andrew Hopper |
 by Dan Lyndon Walter Tull: Footballer, Soldier, Hero The author, Dan Lyndon, writes "Tull is one of my personal heroes …" MORE ... |
 by Maggie Wilson Children's History of Bradford The author, Maggie Wilson, writes "This ‘Children’s History’ is one of …" MORE |
 by Thomas Penn Winter King: The Dawn of Tudor England A new biography of Henry VII |
 by Max Hastings All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 A well-reviewed account of World War Two |
 by Robert C. Davis and Beth Lindsmith |
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