Early History: c 500 to c 1450/1500

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...