Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

Viking is such a vivid word, steeped in imagery and blood. The Viking Age began and ended in England. Its first act in AD 789 was a murder on a bea...

The North Britons are the least-known among the inhabitants of early medieval Scotland. Like the Picts and Vikings they played an important role in...

The extraordinary life story of an ambitious, thirteenth-century adventurer. This book charts the striking rise, fall and restoration of the first...

Godwin and his family dominated English politics for almost half a century, establishing themselves as the most influential and powerful dynasty in...

Acclaimed historian and broadcaster Helen Castor tells the story of Joan of Arc as you have never read it before.'Popular history at its best.' Dai...

The kingdoms of the Picts and Dal Riata, by the time of their union in the ninth century, formed the nucleus of medieval Scotland. This book by Mar...

No English king has suffered wider fluctuations of reputation than Richard III, perhaps the most controversial ruler England has ever had. Vilified...

The fame of Joan of Arc began in her lifetime and, though it has dipped a little now and then, she has never vanished from view. Her image acts as ...

This book: covers the essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, k...

For those living outside Scandinavia, the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne, a characteristically ...

Books Most Needful to Know is the newest edition in the Richard Rawlinson Center's OEN Subsidia series. It includes essays covering topics such as ...

This volume brings together thirteen essays on aspects of the legal system of Anglo-Saxon England. They represent a programme of research carried o...

Think more deeply and work more independently at A level History through a carefully thought-out enquiry approach from SHP.Enquiring History: It ma...

The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II.One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugg...

The Anglo-Saxon era is one of the most important in English history, covering the period from the end of Roman authority in the British Isles to th...

For nearly three hundred years, the Vikings set out on voyages from Scandinavia reaching every corner of the northern world. As raiders, traders, e...

From an obscure, misty archipelago on the fringes of the Roman world to history's largest empire and originator of the world's mongrel, magpie lang...

This modernized extract from The Great Chronicle of London covers the reign of England's first Tudor king, Henry VII (1485-1509). It gives an eye-w...

The Incas built one of the largest empires of the ancient world. The sheer scale makes their achievement truly remarkable. At its zenith it extende...

The new research in this biography solves the riddle of the disappearance of Joanna of Flanders early in the Hundred Years War, a leader described ...

In a time when men fought and women stayed home, Nicholaa de la Haye held Lincoln Castle against all-comers. Not once, but three times, earning her...

Weir perfectly combines the dramatic colour and timing of an historical novelist with the truth to fact of a scrupulous historian The TimesBritains...

This companion volume to the exhibit examines the multicultural city of Fustat, capital of medieval Egypt and predecessor to modern Cairo. It explo...

This boxed set of two encyclopedias charts the rise and fall of the ancient American empires - including the Chavin, Paracas, Moche, Olmec and Zapo...

By turning off the main highway and discovering old routes, some of which have been travelled for thousands of years, you will see Ireland in an en...

Like most empires, the Ming court sponsored grand displays of dynastic strength and military prowess. Covering the first two centuries of the Ming ...

Many Anglo-Saxon kings are familiar. AEthelred the Unready is one, yet less is written of his wife, who was consort of two kings and championed one...

The Mongol Empire was the mightiest land empire the world has ever seen. At its height it was twice the size of its Roman equivalent. For a remarka...

'An authoritative study of one of history's most feared and successful armies...May concludes this definitive study by tracing the Mongol legacy to...

Joan of Arcs life and death mark a turning point in the destiny both of France and England and the history of their monarchies. It is a great shame...