The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, i...

Vaughan Williams

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Taking a panoramic view from the days of Thucydides up to the present, Heffer analyses the motive...

In his best-selling Strictly English Simon Heffer explained how to write and speak our language w...

Simon Heffer's new book forms an ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian age and the...

_______________________________'A brilliant history: The first serious and really wide-ranging hi...

50 speeches from every period of British history from the medieval era to the present and a fasci...

'Be in no doubt: the beer was drunk but the man drank the beer.''We must avoid vulgarities like '...

An ambitious exploration of the making of the Victorian Age-and the Victorian mind-by a master hi...

A richly detailed history of Britain at its imperial zenith, revealing the simmering tensions and...

'An epic new history . . . a work of epic scholarship, breathtaking range, and piercing originali...

The Sunday Times bestselling edition of Chips Channon's remarkable diaries.'The greatest British ...

The English language has evolved throughout its history, and usually for good reasons. However, i...