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...

Simon Heffer was born in 1960. He read English at Cambridge and took a PhD in modern history at t...

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...

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

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

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

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