The best history books help us understand who we are and where we are. The past never fully stays in the past; understanding old events gives us perspective on current ones. And right now ...

Ian Stewart is a historian of modern Europe. Here he picks five of his favourite British history books that tell the stories of a union. Originally written in Welsh, this translation traces the ...

Used for many centuries for administrative and legal purposes, the Domesday Book is the starting point for most local historians researching the history of their area and there are several ...

Now, he has written a short history of British architecture ... But in its final 70 pages, the book "comes flamingly to life", as a "blistering polemic" against the postwar planners and architects ...

Detailing ancient policy failures, racy scandals, imperial eccentricity and various levels of gossip, the book reached the Sunday Times hardback nonfiction chart this week, and made history as ...

Dr Paul Richards is the author behind King’s Lynn: A Potted History, a 96-page book about the port town, starting from 1100.

Black History Month takes place every October in the UK. Use this activity with secondary school students to discover some exceptional Black British humanitarians. Black History Month started over a ...