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

Vaughan Williams

'A brilliant and scholarly biography of an extraordinary figure.' Lord Blake, Country Life

'A riveting account of the pre-First World War years . . . The Age of Decadence is an enormously ...

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

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...

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

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

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

'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...