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Bloomsbury presents Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action, written and read by Kevin Guyan Data has never mattered more. Our lives are increasingly shaped by it and how it is defined, collected and used. But who counts in the collection, analysis and application of data?...

Bloomsbury presents Margaret Bondfield by Nan Sloane, read by Harriet Dunlop A groundbreaking biography of Margaret Bondfield, the remarkable political pioneer and working-class woman who rose to become the first female Cabinet Minister in the 1929 Labour government. Rising from modest...

Ancient woods are Britain's richest habitats: rare fragments of our landscape that teem with life from soil to canopy. They live in our collective imagination as quiet places, best left pristine and untouched. But their story has always been one of interdependence with people. Now, as ever...

Horatio Nelson's celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy's role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted notion that the Battle of Trafalgar essentially completed the Navy's task, the war at sea actually intensified over the next decade, ceasing only with Napoleon's final surrender.

Bloomsbury presents A Queer Inheritence by Michael Hall, read by George Potts ‘A revelatory masterpiece, a true alternative history of our times’ - Simon Jenkins, former Chair of the National Trust LGBTQ+ histories and identities come out of the National Trust’s properties in these...

The dramatic, absolutely outrageous story of Caroline of Brunswick, a beloved icon of the Regency era, who uplifted the voice of the public and unabashedly defied society’s expectations, yet was shockingly robbed of her crown, from the host of the Vulgar History podcast. Caroline Amelia...

A March Indie Next Pick A Barnes & Noble Most Anticipated Nonfiction Book of 2026 A Barnes & Noble Reads Best Book of February 2026 From the author of the national bestseller The Dark Queens, an incandescent work of true crime and feminist history about Elizabeth Bathory, the woman...

An inventive new look at the entwined histories of Britain and Ireland’s nations – and the people who have called them home. Acclaimed author and journalist Brian Groom reveals the colourful and often-contested history of the Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings, Normans and others who have...

Prize-winning author Adam Nicolson tells the story he was born to write – the real story of England. It is the gentry that has made England what it was and, to a degree, still is. In this vivid, lively book, history has never been more readable. We may well be ‘a nation of shopkeepers’...

David Starkey's ‘Monarchy’ charts the rise of the British monarchy from the War of the Roses, the English Civil War and the Georgians, right up until the present day monarchs of the 20th Century. With both authority and verve, David Starkey unmasks the personalities and achievements, the...

From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century. John Maynard Keynes saved Britain from financial crisis twice over the course of two World Wars, and...

Written in a style similar to that of Nigel Slater’s multi-award-winning food memoir ‘Toast’, this is a celebration of the glory, humour, eccentricities and embarrassments that are The British at Table. The British have a relationship with their food that is unlike that of any other...

Audiobook "Henryk VIII bez mitów. Prawda o angielskim władcy" przedstawia historię króla, który do dziś uchodzi za postać niezwykle kontrowersyjną. Jaki rzeczywiście był monarcha, który sześciokrotnie zawierał związek małżeński, skazał na ścięcie dwie ze swoich żon i doprowadził do ustanowienia niezależnego od Rzymu Kościoła anglikańskiego? Publikacja poza odpowiedzią na wyżej postawione pytanie, przybliża m.in. kwestię rozwiązłości na dworze Henryka VIII, jego ulubione rozrywki czy poglądy na sprawy państwowe i religijne.

Mediante las iniciativas personales de mujeres excéntricas, desafiantes, únicas, Londres ha sido y sigue siendo un lugar donde los libros tienen vida propia y sus libreras, una manera más libre de estar en el mundo. Este libro aborda la historia de más de una treintena de libreras y de sus establecimientos en el Londres de los últimos dos siglos.

Romans księcia Karola i Camilli to jeden z najbardziej skandalicznych związków miłosnych w dziejach monarchii brytyjskiej. Nic nie jest tu takie, jak by się z pozoru mogło wydawać: książę Karol nie był podłym mężem zdradzającym piękną żonę, Diana nie miała anielskiego charakteru, a Camilla nie była tą najgorszą, ale kobietą, która dawała Karolowi to, czego najbardziej potrzebował – bezwarunkową miłość.

In Historic Doubts of the Life and Reign of King Richard III, Walpole defends Richard III against the common belief that he murdered the Princes in the Tower, and many of the other crimes laid at his door by the Tudor dynasty which followed Richard’s defeat at the Battle of Bosworth in 1485. In this he has been followed by a number of other writers, including Josephine Tey in her classic 1951 mystery novel The Daughter of Time.

A fun and informative trip around the highways (not forgetting the low ways) and byways of Great Britain. Within this audio you will find love and romance, murder and mayhem, royalty, aristocrats and commoners, politics and politicians, sex and scandal, sporting triumphs and sporting disasters, millionaires and eccentrics, film stars and train robbers and much more besides.

Tony Warner has created community partnerships with, and has lectured at, The Imperial War Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Museum of Docklands and the British Film Institute which have all led to huge increases in minority ethnic audiences. He specialises in regularly exhibiting African/Caribbean films with positive images. He founded Black history walking tours in the St Pauls, Trafalgar Square, Notting Hill, Soho and Elephant and Castle areas in 2007. The walks are designed to uncover the 3500 years of Black history in London and are popular with locals and overseas students.

Dal 1837 è il cuore della monarchia britannica, il quartier generale della "Firm", l'azienda dei Windsor: Buckingham Palace, meta amatissima tanto dai turisti quanto dai media internazionali, è un edificio-icona che ha fatto sognare generazioni di persone. Chi non ha sospirato di fronte ai baci sul balcone degli sposi reali? Chi non vorrebbe ricevere l'invito, consegnato a mano, a uno dei famosi Garden Party della regina?

As this fascinating memoir unfolds, moving backwards and forwards through time, two parallel stories emerge: one of a Second World War Spitfire ace whose flying career comes to a premature end when he’s shot down and loses an eye, the other of his progeny, a second generation fighter pilot who eventually reaches the rank of air marshal.