From the Byzantine to the Battle of Bosworth, the Anglo-Saxons to the American Revolution, here are the History books our booksellers have most loved.
We start with new hardback releases, then look at some of the best paperback publications - and then we've chosen some of our favourite History books from all of, well, history...
Henry V
Dan Jones
Signed first edition
The Golden Road
William Dalrymple
Signed first edition
Four Points of the Compass
Jerry Brotton
Signed first edition
Cunning Folk
Tabitha Stanmore
Signed first edition
The Eagle and the Hart
Helen Castor
Signed first edition
A Body Made of Glass
Caroline Crampton
Signed first edition
Cassino '44
James Holland
Signed first edition
Maidens or Monsters?
Chantry Westwell
Kingmaker
Sonia Purnell
Hitler's People
Richard J. Evans
Signed by the author
Signed first edition
Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
Signed first edition
Black History for Every Day of the Year
David Olusoga, Yinka Olusoga and Kemi Olusoga
Signed first edition
Life Lessons From Historical Women
Eleanor Morton
The Power and the Glory
Adrian Tinniswood
Signed first edition
Saints
Amy Jeffs
Signed first edition
Edinburgh: A New History
Alistair Moffat
Signed first edition
Edinburgh: The Autobiography
Alan Taylor
Signed first edition
Harold Wilson
Alan Johnson
Signed first edition
Republic
Alice Hunt
Signed first edition
The Scapegoat
Lucy Hughes-Hallett
Signed first edition
The Rest is History Returns
Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland
Signed first edition
Eighteen
Alice Loxton
Signed first edition
Oliver Cromwell: Commander in Chief
Ronald Hutton
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959
Peter Parker
Signed by the editor
Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967
Peter Parker
Signed by the editor
Lower than the Angels
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Signed first edition
Our Military History Book of the Year
The Price of Victory
N A M Rodger
Other favourites:
Ben MacIntyre's The Siege
Annie Jacobsen's Nuclear War
Emperor of Rome
Mary Beard
The Wager
David Grann
Normal Women
Philippa Gregory
A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages
Anthony Bale
Unruly
David Mitchell
Fear
Robert Peckham
Time's Echo
Jeremy Eichler
Henry V
Dan Jones
Dan Jones' unmissable biography of Henry V has been praised for its in depth look at his life before he became king.
'A masterclass in making the medieval addictively readable.' - Lucy Worsley
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Novels In Three Lines
Felix Feneon
Killers of the King
Charles Spencer
Between Two Fires
Joshua Yaffa
Salvador
Joan Didion
A Kick in the Belly
Stella Dadzie
River Kings
Cat Jarman
Signed by the author
The Light Ages
Seb Falk
Abyss
Max Hastings
Signed first edition
Colditz
Ben Macintyre
Signed first edition
The World
Simon Sebag Montefiore
Signed first edition
Russia
Antony Beevor
Signed first edition
Vietnam
Max Hastings
Signed first edition
Letters to Camondo
Edmund de Waal
Signed first edition
Operation Pedestal
Max Hastings
Signed first edition
Chastise
Max Hastings
Signed first edition
Defiance
Stephen Taylor
Signed first edition
Atoms and Ashes
Serhii Plokhy
Signed first edition
Thomas Cromwell
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Signed first edition
France: An Adventure History
Graham Robb
Signed first edition
This Sovereign Isle
Robert Tombs
Signed first edition
George V
Jane Ridley
Signed first edition
The Ship Asunder
Tom Nancollas
Signed first edition
The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club
Christopher de Hamel
Signed first edition
The Book-Makers
Adam Smyth
Signed first edition
The Earth Transformed
Peter Frankopan
Signed first edition
House of Lilies
Justine Firnhaber-Baker
Signed first edition
To Catch A King
Charles Spencer
Signed first edition
Emperor of Rome
Mary Beard
Signed first edition
Lower than the Angels
Diarmaid MacCulloch
Signed first edition
