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  • Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British Mysteries
  • Mort la révolution! Why UK film loves a failed rebellion
  • The Other Life Of Mary English by G D Harper

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crimereads.com /2 weeks ago

Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British Mysteries

The title is a bit misleading as the “British” have been with us for quite some time. I doubt anyone would have anticipated the tsunami of Jane Austen’s popularity when her first f...

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theguardian.com /1 week ago

Mort la révolution! Why UK film loves a failed rebellion

Paul Greengrass’s Peasants’ Revolt epic, The Uprising, is just the latest in a long line of movies depicting an unsuccessful attempt at remaking the nationThe British are perverse....

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christianbookaholic.com /1 month ago

The Other Life Of Mary English by G D Harper

A Comprehensive Account  The Other Life Of Mary English by G D Harper is an absolutely fabulous historical novel about the lives of Mary English and Manuela Saenz as they intersect...

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bookriot.com /1 week ago

The Best Historical Fiction Set in the 1700s

Explore Korean court politics, journey to a Scotland that has just been joined with England, and more in these 1700s-set historical books.

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kirkusreviews.com /1 month ago

QUEENS AND KINGS

Worsley was the chief curator of Britain’s Historic Royal Palaces for more than two decades and thus has a unique frame of reference on her subject. A political, social, and royal...

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conservativehome.com /1 month ago

Harriet Dolby: Whatever happened to ‘British’ history?

Paddington bear nationalism is simply not enough to see our way through future conflicts or national crisis. We need something more robust, more resolute. Lucy Powell better get it...

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smartbitchestrashybooks.com /1 month ago

HaBO: Historical with Older, Widowed Main Characters

This HaBO is from Anna, who wants to track down this historical romance: I’m trying to find a historical romance, but I don’t remember the title or author. What I remember: The her...

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bookriot.com /1 month ago

Austen-Inspired Historical Romance for Fans of The Other Bennet Sister

Fall in love alongside these Austen-inspired characters in Ming-Dynasty China, at the Royal Academy of Science, and more.

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dailymail.com /1 month ago

Read Britannia! UK dominate the Booker Prize shortlist

It's a new chapter for British authors - at least in the Booker Prize judges' book. For Britons dominate the shortlist of this year's prestigious award.

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bookriot.com /2 weeks ago

The Best New Historical Fiction Books Out in October 2026

There's Victorian-era Hamlet, a grotesque ball, 18th and 20th-century artists, and even even new Susanna Clarke all out in October.

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bbc.co.uk /1 week ago

Secret Oxfordshire

The story of a wardrobe and the chaos it unleashed on a 1930s Oxfordshire household.

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crimespreemag.com /2 weeks ago

Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson

Our Noble Selves is a delightful comic novel, one that only Kate Atkinson can write. While crimes do occur, the primary “action” surrounds the formulation and execution of 1951’s “...

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walesonline.co.uk /1 month ago

Sherlock fans will love 'masterpiece' BBC thriller based on beloved book

The BBC adaptation continues to captivate viewers with its gripping portrayal of the classic murder mystery novel

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crimereads.com /3 weeks ago

6 Eclectic Historical Mysteries Set in the Early Modern Era

History, by its very nature, lends itself to mystery. The loss of archival records and living witnesses means we can never have a complete picture of events that occurred centuries...

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christianbookaholic.com /1 month ago

A Christmas Proposal by Rose Warner

Carpe Diem A Christmas Proposal by Rose Warner is a charming historical novel. It is the second book in the Teacher Evacuees series but can be read as a stand-alone. Although there...

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christianbookaholic.com /1 month ago

A Christmas Proposal by Rose Warner

Carpe Diem A Christmas Proposal by Rose Warner is a charming historical novel. It is the second book in the Teacher Evacuees series but can be read as a stand-alone. Although there...

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walesonline.co.uk /1 month ago

'Cosy' period movie based on best-selling novel perfect for Call the Midwife fans

Jenny Agutter is a world away from Sister Julienne in this movie set during World War II

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crimereads.com /3 weeks ago

5 Horror Novels Set in Grand Country Homes

Ah…the quintessential English country house. A rural idyll with all the refinements expected in an enormous manor. Formal dinners after a day spent tromping the extensive pastoral...

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countrylife.co.uk /1 month ago

The historic house visited by Elizabeth I — and once owned by a daredevil racing driver

Old Cloth Hall in Cranbrook is as historic as it is beautiful.

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conservativehome.com /1 week ago

Badenoch persuades Biggar and Tombs to contend that the British Empire was by no means all bad

What a craving for certainty we have, how cheaply we can seem to attain this by imposing a simplistic and anachronistic morality (it was all bad, it was all good), and how deluded...

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walesonline.co.uk /1 month ago

Netflix's 'epic' six-part period drama already compared to Bridgerton

Netflix's new series is described as a "breathtaking adaptation of the classic novel"

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lisasreading.com /1 month ago

A Christmas Proposal

She lost everything in the Great War – her brothers, her fiancé, her way of life. Will this new war bring back long-buried feelings?

Beatrice is settling into life in the c...

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bookishjottings.com /1 month ago

A House in Winter by Emily Hourican Blog Tour – Review

Set in January 1965, A House in Winter tells the story of the visit of Princess Margaret and Lord Snowden to his sister’s home in Abbeyleix, Ireland, when they faced local oppositi...

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thedailymash.co.uk /1 month ago

We ask you: What British event should we make a new Bayeux tapestry of?

THE Bayeux Tapestry records the birth of Britain as a nation when we heroically lose a fight to the French. What should be on a new one?

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