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Books for history lovers: summer reading 2023

16 July 2023 By Frances Owen

What will you be reading this summer? We asked 12 well-known and well-loved authors to each suggest a couple of books they recommend for history lovers to enjoy over the next couple of months – and long after. They’ve come back with a wide-ranging mix of history and fiction spanning 2,000 years, with a foray […]

Historical books to look out for in 2023

1 January 2023 By Frances Owen

It’s back — Historia’s most popular regular feature, our round-up of books published by members of the Historical Writers’ Association (HWA) during the coming year. Here are more than 150 books covering history, biography, and historical fiction and spanning eras from Ancient Rome to the 1980s. They sweep around the world from Australia to India, […]

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