Reading Lists

Each month we invite a leading historian to recommend five books on their subject

Postwar politics
[15th October 2009]

Francis Beckett, author of Marching to the Fault Line, the story of the 1984–5 miners’ strike, looks at books about British politics from 1945

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Crime and violence
[1st September 2009]

Clive Emsley, author of Hard Men: Violence in England Since 1750, recommends five further books on crime and physical force

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Elizabeth I
[10th August 2009]

Sarah Gristwood, author of a study of the Virgin Queen’s relationship with Robert Dudley, recommends further reading on the last Tudor monarch

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The Royal Navy in Nelson’s Era
[10th August 2009]

Professor Andrew Lambert recommends books on the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars (1793–1815)

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Partisans in wartime Europe
[5th August 2009]

David Stafford, author of Secret Agent: the True Story of the Special Operations Executive, looks at books on Second World War guerilla warfare

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The Suffragettes
[5th August 2009]

Julia Bush, whose book Women Against the Vote explores the opposition to women’s suffrage, chooses six books on the Suffragettes

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