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The Steel Bonnets: The Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorScotland: The Story of a Nation
Magnus Magnusson · 734 pages
A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World? 3500 BC-AD 1603
Simon Schama · 356 pages
'The British Wars' is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand and strata of British life, faith and thought from 1603 to 1776. It explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change.
Mary Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnley
Alison Weir · 621 pages
This book is an excursion into Britain's bloodstained, power-obsessed past. The author's investigation into Lord Darnley's murder is set against one of the most dramatic periods in English history. Its conclusions shed light on the actions and motives of the conspirators and, in particular, the extent of Mary's own involvement. Tall, handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley
How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It
Arthur Herman · 392 pages
"Mention of Scotland and the Scots usually conjures up images of kilts, bagpipes, Scotch whisky, and golf. But as historian and author Arthur Herman demonstrates, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Scotland earned the respect of the rest of the world for its crucial contributions to science, philosophy, literature, education, medicine, commerce, and politics - contributions that have forme
Orkneyinga Saga: The History of the Earls of Orkney
Anonymous · 256 pages
Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart
John Guy · 581 pages
A new historian of Mary Queen of Scots draws on new sources to shatter various myths surrounding this odd monarch and uncover some of the scandals and political machinations underpinning, and undermining, her throne.
How to Kill a Witch: The Patriarchy's Guide to Silencing Women
Zoe Venditozzi · 320 pages
The Kings and Queens of England and Scotland
Plantagenet Somerset Fry · 96 pages
A chronologically-arranged guide to the kings and queens of England and Scotland; includes information about how each leader affected the country's history and culture.
The Invention of Tradition
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Prys Morgan, David Cannadine, Bernard S. Cohn · 320 pages
Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady
Kate Summerscale · 303 pages
Traces the story of a scandalous trial that rocked Victorian England, describing how Isabella Robinson recorded sexual fantasies in her private diary, which was discovered and read by her husband, who petitioned for divorce on the grounds of adultery.
Crown and Country: A History of England Through the Monarchy
David Starkey · 488 pages
Infamous Lady: The True Story of Countess Erzsébet Báthory
Kimberly L. Craft · 379 pages
Reputed to be the world's worst female serial killer, Countess Bathory is also said to have been a lesbian, a vampire, and a witch who bathed in the blood of the 650 people she murdered before being walled alive in the tower of her castle. The truth, however, is finally revealed through actual letters, documents, and trial transcripts, many of which have been translated into English for the first
London: The Biography
Peter Ackroyd · 824 pages
"London: The Biography is the pinnacle of Peter Ackroyd's brilliant obsession with the eponymous city. In this work, Ackroyd brings the reader through time into the city whose institutions and idiosyncrasies have permeated much of his works of fiction and nonfiction.". "Peter Ackroyd sees London as a living, breathing organism, with its own laws of growth and change. Reveling in the city's riches
A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years
Diarmaid MacCulloch · 1,161 pages
Christianity, one of the world's great religions, has had an incalculable impact on human history. This book, now the most comprehensive and up to date single volume work in English, describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organisation and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society.Diarmaid MacCulloch ranges from Palestine in the fir
Winter King
Thomas Penn · 458 pages
It was 1501. England had been ravaged for decades by conspiracy, violence, murders, coups and counter-coups. Henry VII had clambered to the top of the heap - a fugitive with a flimsy claim to England's crown who through luck, guile and ruthlessness had managed to win the throne and stay on it for sixteen years. Although he built palaces, hosted jousts, gave out lavish presents and sent ambassadors
Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy
John Julius Norwich · 536 pages
A comprehensive, rollicking, and timely history of the papacy.
The Middle East
Bernard Lewis · 448 pages
"As the Birthplace of three religions and many civilizations, the Middle East has for centuries been a center of knowledge and ideas, of techniques and commodities, and, at times, of military and political power. With the historical - and still growing - importance of the Middle East in modern politics, historian Bernard Lewis's cogent and scholary writing brings a wider understanding of the cultu