Conor Cruise O’Brien

The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume I: The Origins of Empire: British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

by William Roger Louis editor-in-chief, edited by Nicholas Canny

The Oxford History of the British Empire, Volume II: The Eighteenth Century

by William Roger Louis editor-in-chief, edited by P.J. Marshall

The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy

Ulster: Conflict and Consent

by Tom Wilson

A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution

edited by François Furet and Mona Ozouf, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

Bernard Shaw: Volume I, 1856–1898, The Search for Love

by Michael Holroyd

Evelyn Waugh: The Early Years, 1903–1939

by Martin Stannard

The Bloody Crossroads: Where Literature and Politics Meet

by Norman Podhoretz