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Throughout the centuries, the castles of Dover, Deal and Walmer, in Kent, have been of prime strategic importance to England, protecting the south-east tip of the country from invasion. This is an authoritative account of their British importance and includes fascinating stories of historical characters associated with them, from King Henry VIII through to the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Athelstan: The Making of England by Tom Holland, read by Roy McMillan. The formation of England happened against the odds - the division of the country into rival kingdoms, the assaults of the Vikings, the precarious position of the island on the edge of the known world. But King Alfred ensured the survival of Wessex, his son Eadweard expanded it, and his grandson Æthelstan finally united Mercia and Wessex, conquered Northumbria and became Rex totius Britanniae.

Thomas Edward Lawrence war "Lawrence von Arabien". Der englische Offizier unterstützte in den Jahren 1917/18 den Aufstand der Araber gegen die türkische Herrschaft. Als Verbindungsmann zur britischen Armee organisierte er zusammen mit Scherif Faisal den arabischen Unabhängigkeitskampf. Seine Guerillataktiken verschafften den Aufständischen schnell erste Erfolge - die Legende des "Lawrence von Arabien" war geboren.

In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to...

Under åren mellan de två världskrigen, särskilt under den stora depressionen, var den allmänna opinionen delad. En del trodde att fascism skulle lösa de problem som tyngde Europa, andra ansåg att socialism var lösningen. Tron på dessa olikartade ideologier var ofta orsaken till splittringar inom familjer. Inte minst inom familjen Mitford under 1930-talets Storbritannien. David Mitford och Sydney Bowles var föräldrar till sex döttrar. En nazist, en fascist, en kommunist, en hertiginna och en författare. Tillsammans var de en framstående och inflytelserik familj.

På morgonen torsdagen den 19 februari 2015 var det som om 16 åriga Becky Watts i Bristol plötsligt försvann från jordens yta. Hennes försvinnande var oförklarligt. Natten innan hade hon sovit över hos en vän och skickat kärleksfulla sms till pojkvännen Luke som hon skulle träffa dagen därpå. Men Becky dök aldrig upp till träffen. Sms:en till pojkvännen från tidigare den morgonen var det sista någon skulle höra från henne. Becky anmäldes försvunnen och en enorm skallgång inleds.

The finest fighting force in the world. Escape. Evade. Survive. Repeat. Seven gripping tales of overcoming the impossible. Arguably the finest special forces troops of the Second World War, the SAS was the jewel in the British military crown. But the near-impossible nature of their heroic missions sometimes left them trapped behind enemy lines, the enemy closing and forced to endure the unendurable. But the unendurable is all in a day’s work for these magnificent seven. Incredible odds. Outstanding bravery. Real adventure.

Den har kallats den största kärlekshistorien i historien, såväl som den största kungliga skandalen - affären mellan Wallis Simpson och Edward VIII förändrade brittisk historia för evigt. Edwards liv hade varit fullt med skandaler, främst på grund av sin förkärlek för opassande kärleksaffärer. Från 20-årsåldern ägnade han sig åt många relationer med både prostit­uerade och med gifta kvinnor. Kan den affär han är mest känd för möjligen vara den minst skandalösa av dem alla?

Hur bör man straffa två elvaårigar som tillsammans mördat ett litet barn? Utanför domstolen i South Sefton i Liverpool 1993 hade en ilsken folkmassa samlats för att bevittna rättegången mot två elvaåriga pojkar som stod anklagade för kidnappning och mord på en tvåårig pojke. De åtalade var Robert Thompson och Jon Venables som i media kallades för barn A och barn B för att skydda deras identiteter. Rättegången kom sedan att skjutas upp och flyttas pågrund av de stora pådraget från arga åskådare och media utanför domstolen i South Sefton.

The Wars of Scottish Independence were a series of conflicts between Scotland and England that spanned more than 60 years during the 13th and 14th centuries. These wars led directly to the establishment of Scotland as an independent, sovereign country and to the emergence of two of Scotland’s best-known national heroes, William Wallace and Robert the Bruce. Yet these wars are much more than a simple struggle on the part of Scotland to free itself from English incursions.

J. R. R. Tolkien, an orphan in love with words, spent most of his life as an unassuming Professor of Literature at Oxford studying and teaching old languages. During his time there, he created his very own languages and a mythological world, Middle-earth. Middle-earth was inhabited by Hobbits, Dwarves, Elves, and other fascinating creatures. It was a world that became almost more real to Tolkien than the one he lived in. Tolkien’s two masterpieces, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, have set the standard in mythological literature.

Kris Marshall and Katherine Jakeways star as Mr & Mrs Pepys in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of the world famous diaries. Samuel Pepys was 26 when he decided to start keeping a diary, in January 1660. For the next 10 years he faithfully recorded the day's events and confessed his innermost thoughts. That diary has since become one of our most important, and fascinating, historical documents. Pepys gave us eyewitness accounts of some of the great events of the 17th century, including the Great Fire of London and the Second Dutch War.

Six raids that changed the course of history. Operation Judgement: one of the most spectacular efforts of World War Two, where obsolete British biplanes attacked the Italian fleet in Taranto. Operation Archery: the first true combined operation carried out by all three British forces. This successful raid persuaded Hitler that the Allies were planning a full-scale invasion. Operation Biting: a cross-Channel raid into France that was the first major attack by the British Airborne Division and its first battle honour. Operation Gunnerside: a dramatic demolition assault on Hitler's atomic bomb plant in Norway....

The most iconic planes of WWII, the Supermarine Spitfire, Hawker Hurricane, DeHavilland Mosquito and the Avro Lancaster, were all powered by one engine, the Rolls-Royce Merlin. The story of the Merlin is one of British ingenuity at its height, of artistry and problem-solving that resulted in a war-winning design.

Covering the development of the atomic bomb during the Second World War, the origins and early course of the Cold War and the advent of the hydrogen bomb in the early 1950s, Churchill and the Bomb in War and Cold War explores a still neglected aspect of Winston Churchill's career: his relationship with and thinking on nuclear weapons.

Winner of the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees’ Award Longlisted for the Orwell Prize Unflinching and revealing, Black and British is a vital history that reveals how black British lives have been woven into the fabric of the nation for centuries – from...

A genuinely new Second World War story, The 21 Escapes of Lt Alastair Cram is a riveting account of the wartime exploits of Alastair Cram, brilliantly told by the American author David Guss. Cram was taken prisoner in North Africa in November 1941, which began a long odyssey through 10 different POW camps and three Gestapo prisons. He became a serial escapee - fleeing his captors no fewer than 21 times, including his final, and finally successful, escape from a POW column in April 1945.

Do you want to learn more about the Winston Churchill, but don’t have time to listen to huge, long biographies. Then let The History Journals take you on an hourly history tour of his tenure in World War 2. Winston Churchill had undeniably given his all for King and country and an allied victory promised to be his finest hour; but he was wise to be cautious, and quite incredibly his own future as the nation’s Prime Minister was far from assured.

When Queen Victoria stepped onto the throne of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837, gone were the days when the monarch had supreme authority over the kingdom. Victoria ruled at the head of a government with which she was meant to converse, debate, and ultimately guide, and it was a job she sometimes struggled to perform. Victoria described herself as an emotional creature and blamed her gender for what she believed were her shortcomings as a monarch.

From his earliest years, Prince William has been a photographer's dream come true in the same way his mother had been. While he is not necessarily known for his mother's media savvy, he is well liked by the media, and he is able, consciously or incidentally, to capitalize on this advantage. At the same time, from polo to charities, William is thoroughly his father Charles' son as a Windsor prince.