British History

Books about the history of the British Isles.

This covers non-fiction about the time period, but also fiction that is set during this time period.

The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Norman Conquest
The Wars of the Roses
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
The Children of Henry VIII
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
The Life of Elizabeth I
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
The Princes in the Tower
She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
Abhijit Naskar
When the descendants of a brutish empire continue to represent and maintain the authority of that empire, such descendants do not deserve even an ounce of respect from civilized humans, any more than their ancestors do, let alone be declared head of state. It'd be like respecting a neonazi for advocating for a new confederate America. ...more
Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

Norman Davies
When the second stage of Stonehenge was built on Salisbury Plain c. 2700 BC, it could not have been called Stonehenge, which is an English name. The English had not yet arrived. The English language had not been invented. The Plain would have been there; but it could not have been named after Salisbury, since Salisbury itself had not been founded. One may deduce that a year equivalent to 2700 BC once existed; but no such date could have been conceived before the birth of Christ or the concept of ...more
Norman Davies, The Isles: A History

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