The History of the Kings of Britain

Geoffrey of Monmouth

History

Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundati

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The Grand Slave Emporium

Cape Coast Castle and the British Slave Trade

William St Clair

History

For nearly one hundred and fifty years before abolition in 1807, Cape Coast Castle was, in the words of one of

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Humphry Clinker

Tobias Smollett

Classic Fiction

Offers a picture of eighteenth-century society. This story describes Squire Brambles tour of the Britain of Geo

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Empire

How Britain Made the Modern World

Niall Ferguson

History

Once vast swathes of the globe were coloured imperial red and Britannia ruled not just the waves, but the prair

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Crimea

The Last Crusade

Orlando Figes

History

The Charge of the Light Brigade, Florence Nightingale—these are the enduring icons of the Crimean War. L

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The Scramble for Africa

Thomas Pakenham

History

White Mans Conquest of the Dark Continent
from 1876 to 1912

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