The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603.To look back at the past is to understand the present. In this vivid account of over 4,000 years...

This work takes us from the mid-1770s when the country was intoxicated by a great surge of political energy through to the massive advances of technology and industrialisation during the Victoria...

Change - sometimes gentle and subtle, sometimes shocking and violent - is at the heart of this first volume of Simon Schama’s grippingly written history. He poses questions of compelling...