The Domesday Book - compiled in 1085-6 - is one of the few historical records whose name is familiar to most people in this country. It is our earliest public record, the foundation document of the ...

Ian Stewart is a historian of modern Europe. Here he picks five of his favourite British history books that tell the stories of a union. Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837 by Linda Colley . A ...

Their extensive history makes for countless books about the royal family to devour and add to your to-read stack, whether you love, hate, or feel ambivalent toward the royals.

Alwyn Turner’s colourful books about modern British history are always great, but a particular achievement is All in It Together, which covers 21 st-century England from the turn of the ...

Now, he has written a short history of British architecture, aimed at the "intelligent layman". As Jenkins takes us through the various styles (Palladianism, the gothic revival, etc.), it sometimes ...

The British Imagination: A History of Ideas from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II by Peter Watson, Simon & Schuster £30, 544 pages Rowan Williams was the Archbishop of Canterbury from 2002 to 2012 ...

British royal history dates back to the 10th century, when King Athelstan claimed the title Rex totius Britanniae (“King of all Britain”.) In the years since, British royals have changed the ...