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
The Children of Henry VIII
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (The History of England, #1)
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
The White Queen (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #2)
The Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankFemales of Valor by Widad AkreyiZoroastrians' Fight for Survival by Widad AkreyiWhen Secrets Bloom by Patricia  Furstenberg
Women's History Month
452 books — 83 voters
Burned Over! by A.J. OtjenJourney to the West by Biao  WangAmerican Freethinker by Kirsten FischerThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiFemales of Valor by Widad Akreyi
Best books on history and culture.
145 books — 127 voters

John Adams by David McCulloughThe Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by William L. Shirer1776 by David McCulloughThe Guns of August by Barbara W. TuchmanTeam of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin
Best History Books
4,035 books — 4,525 voters
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankThe Book Thief by Markus ZusakNight by Elie WieselThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann ShafferSchindler’s List by Thomas Keneally
World War II Fiction & Non-fiction
822 books — 436 voters

Impossible Saints by Clarissa HarwoodA Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary WollstonecraftA Time For Courage by Kathryn LaskyFalling Angels by Tracy ChevalierThe Woman's Hour by Elaine F. Weiss
Women's Suffrage
444 books — 148 voters

Abhijit Naskar
Britain may have a few things to take pride in, Conan Doyle and Doctor Who to name a few - but colonialism is not one of them.
Abhijit Naskar, Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo

Shashi Tharoor
[W]hen we kill people,’ a British sea-captain says in the Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies, ‘we feel compelled to pretend that it is for some higher cause. It is this pretence of virtue, I promise you, that will never be forgiven by history.’ I cannot presume to write on behalf of history, but as an Indian, I find it far easier to forgive than to forget.
Shashi Tharoor, An Era of Darkness: The British Empire in India

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