The very latest updates from the past, published in September 2026 (in hardback, in the UK). A few that I would like to have read, even if I probably will not get around to reading them:
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The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood, by William Whyte. A university is fundamentally a place1, and a place is defined by stuff. Stuff like stone buildings, silk gowns and of course students!
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The Last Invasion of England: 1688 and the Dutch Armada, by Arthur der Weduwen. In which the glorious revolution is actually a glorious invasion. As the blurb puts it: "The sixteen thousand Dutch troops who accompanied William were not on hand for moral support." ๐ฌ
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Empire at the Edge of the World: Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic, by Giles Milton. Another (presumably) rip-roaring adventure from the doyen of popular history writing!
Click the book covers to see a zoomed in image and links to Amazon if you like to buy your books there.
The full list:
- ๐ Queens and Kings: An Unusually Personal History
- ๐ Church Crawling: The Secret Lives and Hidden Stories of Englands Churches
- ๐ Britain's Slave Traders: A forgotten history
- ๐ Empire at the Edge of the World: Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic
- ๐ The House of Cromwell: Power, Family and the Making of Modern Britian
- ๐ Anti-Zionism: A Jewish history
- ๐ Domesday: 1,000 miles on foot through the England of the Norman Conquest
- ๐ Pocket Bayeux Tapestry
- ๐ The Sea-King and the Sorceress: Life and Death in the Viking Age
- ๐ The University: A History in Stone, Silk, and Blood
- ๐ Contested Continent: The Struggle for North America, c. 1000-1680
- ๐ The Last Invasion of England: 1688 and the Dutch Armada
Apart from the Open University of course. โฉ๏ธ
