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
59,408 members
924 reviews
4.2
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Middlemarch
by George Eliot
17,831 members
331 reviews
4.2
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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815
by N. A. M. Rodger
562 members
9 reviews
½ 4.5
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London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750
by Robert O. Bucholz
64 members
4
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A Tale of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens
36,911 members
457 reviews
3.9
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Memoirs of the Second World War
by Winston S. Churchill
851 members
10 reviews
4.2
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Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy
10,199 members
141 reviews
3.9
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A History of the English-Speaking Peoples
by Winston S. Churchill
1,507 members
7 reviews
4.2
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The Downing Street Years
by Margaret Thatcher
1,181 members
6 reviews
½ 3.6
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David Copperfield
by Charles Dickens
21,170 members
282 reviews
4.1
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12
Trafalgar: The Biography of a Battle
by Roy Adkins
667 members
12 reviews
3.9
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1215: The Year of Magna Carta
by Danny Danziger
1,062 members
22 reviews
½ 3.7
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14
North and South
by Elizabeth Gaskell
7,484 members
245 reviews
4.1
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Emma
by Jane Austen
38,283 members
506 reviews
4.1
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Empire and Superempire: Britain, America and the World
by Bernard Porter
27 members
3
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Double Cross : The True Story of the D-Day Spies
by Ben Macintyre
1,070 members
45 reviews
3.9
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18
Oliver Twist
by Charles Dickens
24,427 members
242 reviews
3.8
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Sarum
by Edward Rutherfurd
4,067 members
79 reviews
4
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Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
10,626 members
134 reviews
½ 3.5
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The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
by Dan Jones
1,920 members
42 reviews
4.1
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London
by Edward Rutherfurd
4,551 members
76 reviews
3.9
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Rob Roy
by Sir Walter Scott
2,663 members
29 reviews
½ 3.5
25
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
by Peter Ackroyd
1,140 members
12 reviews
½ 3.7
26
Queen Victoria
by Lytton Strachey
945 members
7 reviews
3.8
27
A Journey: My Political Life
by Tony Blair
842 members
23 reviews
½ 3.4
28
The Wooden World: An Anatomy of the Georgian Navy
by N. A. M. Rodger
394 members
1 review
4
29
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649
by N. A. M. Rodger
379 members
1 review
½ 4.4
30
William Pitt the Younger
by William Hague
375 members
9 reviews
4.2
31
Waterloo: A Near Run Thing
by David Howarth
330 members
4 reviews
½ 3.6
32
English Society, 1580-1680
by Keith Wrightson
212 members
4
33
A history of Britain
by Simon Schama
197 members
1 review
3.9
34
Great Houses of England and Wales
by Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
143 members
1 review
½ 4.4
36
Culinary Pleasures: Cookbooks and the Transformation of British Food
by Nicola Humble
59 members
2 reviews
4.1
37
The Edwardians: The Remaking of British Society
by Paul Thompson
51 members
4 reviews
4.1
38
Life in Regency England
by Reginald James White
46 members
2 reviews
3
39
The Glorious Revolution of 1688
by Maurice Ashley
43 members
3
40
Wales: History of a Nation
by David Ross
37 members
4.1
41
The Labour Party in Perspective
by C. R. Attlee
31 members
42
A Caledonian Feast
by Annette Hope
31 members
43
William Pitt, the Younger
by P. W. Wilson
27 members
3
44
The Scottish Castle
by Stewart Cruden
11 members
45
Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott
13,113 members
121 reviews
½ 3.7