Best books about British history to read in 2024. From ancient Londinium to the complex legacy of Imperialism, read of what lies beneath the surface of our modern existence.

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.

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 ...

Taking in astronomy, geology, philosophy literature and more, this book journeys through 500 years of British history to consider the ideas and people who have made our nation what it is today ...

The book’s organising principle is a day—September 29th 1923—when the British Empire reached its maximum territorial extent. The portrait is achieved with a wide-angle lens, but the choice ...

History books. Add to myFT. Get instant alerts for this topic. ... The British Imagination: A History of Ideas from Elizabeth I to Elizabeth II by Peter Watson, Simon & Schuster £30, 544 pages.