Literature
- The Rise of The Novel by Ian Watt (1957)
- Daniel Defoe (1660 to 1731)
- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
- Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne (1759 to 1768)
- The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (1766)
- Johnson’s Life of Milton (1777)
History
British domestic
- Culloden and the ’45 by Jeremy Black (1990)
- The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century by John Brewer (1997)
British empire
- Battle For Empire: The Very First World War by Tom Pocock (1998)
- Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson (2004)
- 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World by Frank McLynn (2004)
- The Global Seven Years War by Daniel A. Baugh (2011)
- Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain by John Darwin (2012)
Australia
- The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding by Robert Hughes (1986)
- Captain James Cook: A Biography by Richard Hough (1994)
America
- American Colonies: The Settlement of North America to 1800 by Alan Taylor (2001)
- Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence by John Ferling (2007)
- American Revolutions: A Continental History 1750 to 1804 by Alan Taylor (2016)
Slavery
- Black Ivory: A History of British Slavery by James Walvin (1992)
- Black Ivory (2) by James Walvin (1992)
- Bury the Chains: The British Struggle to Abolish Slavery by Adam Hochschild (2005)
Exhibitions
- Artist and Empire: Facing Britain’s Imperial Past @ Tate Britain (January 2016)
- Beauty and barbarism (a note on Banastre Tarleton) at the National Gallery
- James Cook: The Voyages @ the British Library (June 2018)
- Gainsborough’s Family Album @ the National Portrait Gallery (January 2019)
- John Opie @ Tate Britain (November 2019)
- Executions @ the Museum of London Docklands (April 2023)
Books & Boots 