Used for many centuries for administrative and legal purposes, the Domesday Book is the starting point for most local historians researching the history of their area and there are several ...

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. Originally written in Welsh, this translation traces the ...

Detailing ancient policy failures, racy scandals, imperial eccentricity and various levels of gossip, the book reached the Sunday Times hardback nonfiction chart this week, and made history as ...

Now, he has written a short history of British architecture ... But in its final 70 pages, the book "comes flamingly to life", as a "blistering polemic" against the postwar planners and architects ...

A new history of women stockbrokers, authored by a Lancaster University professor, captures the stories of the businesswomen who fought against the ...

I use the dinner party analogy because Jones’ book is like a perfect little digest – and a great one to read if you’re due to ...