I know that some of you in the Lower Sixth are beginning to turn your mind to history / Oxbridge applications. If you click here you will get to someone’s list of the hundred greatest history books. Such things are of course subjective, but any of these would take you well beyond normal A level work, and help you fulfil that idea of academic independence. Most are very cheap on Amazon.
Someone cleverer than me recommends John Arnold’s A Very Short Introduction to History (in the small Oxford paperback series) to get you thinking about a lot of key questions.
The list is described as follows;
“The 100 Best History Books of All Time list contains a mixture of the most rewarding history books ever written. It includes texts on the most important topics in human history and has works of women’s history, political history, diplomatic history, social history, cultural history, economic history, intellectual history, micro history, sexual history, military history, religious history, environmental history, world history, and historiography. It is written with an Anglo-American focus.”
Enjoy,
Mr Kydd.
