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 Wars of the Roses
The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Norman Conquest
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England, 400–1066
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
The Children of Henry VIII
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life (World Leaders Past & Present)
The Life of Elizabeth I
A Great and Terrible King: Edward I and the Forging of Britain
The Princes in the Tower
Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens
Roses and Radicals by Susan ZimetThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankFemales of Valor by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad Akreyi
Women's History Month
452 books — 95 voters
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya AngelouI Am Malala by Malala YousafzaiThe Immigrant by Nery McMahonBlack Indian by Shonda BuchananThe Complete Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
Non Fiction/Memoirs by Women of Color
351 books — 73 voters

The Wars of the Roses by Dan JonesIsabella by Kirstin DowneyEveryday Life in Medieval London by Toni MountNapoleon by Andrew RobertsBlood Royal by Eric Jager
History Books 2014
144 books — 153 voters
Towards Blue Skies by Adele MinnarBlackout by Connie WillisThe Raiders and the Cross by Patrick LarsimontAll Clear by Connie WillisThe English Agent by Clare  Harvey
The Blitz: Fiction & Non-Fiction
198 books — 102 voters

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“ Carry on Up The Tower (The Sonnet) British museum is not a repository of relics, it's a time capsule of british barbarism. It's a classic case of cannibalism, narcissism, kleptomania and psychopathy combined in one. Tower of London is not a heritage site, it's the Bedlam of the british. The title of "heritage site" belongs to memories of pride, not primitives. Buckingham palace is not a noble home, it's the national zoo of England, where they coddle massacre 'n stagnation, with no civil initi ...more ”
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