All Things Great Britain

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The purpose of this list is to compile the best books (non-fiction or fiction) about British (English, Scottish, Welsh) history, culture, politics, society, etc.
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Jane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë
67,900 members
1,017 reviews
4.2
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
20,755 members
368 reviews
4.2
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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
by N. A. M. Rodger
651 members
9 reviews
½ 4.4
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London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750
by Robert O. Bucholz
66 members
4
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
42,014 members
491 reviews
3.9
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Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
955 members
10 reviews
4.2
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Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
11,239 members
157 reviews
3.9
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
by Winston S. Churchill
1,705 members
11 reviews
4.2
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The Downing Street Years
by Margaret Thatcher
1,295 members
8 reviews
½ 3.6
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
24,132 members
325 reviews
4.1
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12
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle
by Roy Adkins
754 members
13 reviews
3.9
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
by Danny Danziger
1,135 members
23 reviews
½ 3.7
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14
North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
8,632 members
262 reviews
4.1
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Emma
by Jane Austen
44,056 members
568 reviews
4.1
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Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World
by Bernard Porter
31 members
3
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Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by Ben Macintyre
1,238 members
46 reviews
3.9
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Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
28,404 members
273 reviews
3.8
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Sarum
by Edward Rutherfurd
4,423 members
84 reviews
4
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
11,989 members
146 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
by Dan Jones
2,455 members
45 reviews
4.1
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London
by Edward Rutherfurd
4,974 members
88 reviews
3.9
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Rob Roy
by Sir Walter Scott
3,003 members
33 reviews
½ 3.5
25
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
by Peter Ackroyd
1,237 members
14 reviews
½ 3.7
26
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
1,043 members
8 reviews
3.8
27
A Journey: My Political Life
by Tony Blair
910 members
24 reviews
½ 3.3
28
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649
by N. A. M. Rodger
454 members
1 review
½ 4.3
29
The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
by N. A. M. Rodger
422 members
1 review
4
30
William Pitt the Younger
by William Hague
409 members
9 reviews
4.2
31
A Near Run Thing: The Day of Waterloo
by David Howarth
367 members
4 reviews
½ 3.5
32
English Society, 1580-1680
by Keith Wrightson
234 members
3.9
33
A Complete History of Britain
by Simon Schama
212 members
3.8
34
Great Houses of England and Wales
by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
161 members
1 review
½ 4.4
36
The Unfinished Revolution: How the Modernisers Saved the Labour Party
by Philip Gould
62 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
37
Culinary Pleasures: Cookbooks and the Transformation of British Food
by Nicola Humble
61 members
2 reviews
4.1
38
The Edwardians: The Remaking of British Society
by Paul Thompson
54 members
4 reviews
4.1
40
Life in Regency England
by Reginald James White
46 members
2 reviews
3
41
Wales: History of a Nation
by David Ross
44 members
4.1
42
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
by Maurice Ashley
44 members
½ 3.5
43
The New British Politics
by Ian Budge
42 members
1 review
44
The British system of government
by A.H. Birch
37 members
45
A Caledonian Feast
by Annette Hope
35 members
46
British Government and Politics
by R. M. Punnett
33 members
½ 2.5
47
The Labour party in perspective
by C. R. Attlee
33 members
48
Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics
by Matthew Goodwin
31 members
½ 3.3
49
William Pitt, the Younger
by P. W. Wilson
29 members
3
50
British Cabinet Government
by Simon James
21 members
5
51
The Scottish Castle
by Stewart Cruden
16 members
1
54
British Government in Crisis
by Christopher D. Foster
12 members
55
The British System of Government
by William Alexander Robson
6 members
57
British government
by Hiram Miller Stout
3 members
60
British Government
by Glyn Parry
2 members
1
61
British Government and Politics
by F. Randall
2 members
62
Studies in British government
by N. H Brasher
2 members
63
Policy Networks in British Government
by David Marsh
1 member
65
Ivanhoe
by Walter Scott
15,017 members
137 reviews
½ 3.7