If you're interested in learning more about the subjects covered in the latest Timewatch series, here's a selection of books for you to take your interest further.

Viking Voyage

The Vikings in England: Settlement, Society and Culture, by Dawn Hadley, published by Manchester University Press, 2007

Viking Weapons and Warfare, by J. Kim Siddorn, published by NPI Media, 2003

Bloody Omaha

Imperial War Museum: The D-Day Experience from the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris, by R Holmes, published by Carlton Books, 2005

Omaha Beach: D-Day, June 6, 1944, by Joseph Balkoski, published by Stackpole Books, 2006

Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris, by John Keegan, published by Jonathan Cape, 1982

The Greatest Knight
The Tournament in England: 1100-1400, by Juliet R.V. Barker, published by Boydell, 2003

Tournament: A Chivalric Way of Life, by David Crouch, published by Hambledon, 2006

William Marshal: Knighthood, War and Chivalry, by David Crouch, published by Longman 2002

William Marshal: The Flower of Chivalry, by Georges Duby, published by Random House, 1987

Wreckers

Admiral Shovell's Treasure, by Peter McBride and Richard Larn, published by Shipwreck & Marine, 1999

The Wreckers: The Story of Killing Seas, False Lights and Plundered Ships, by Bella Bathurst, published by Harper Perennial, 2006

Pharaoh's Lost City

Akhenaten and the Religion of Light, by Erik Hornung and David Lorton, published by Cornell University Press, 2001

Akhenaten: Egypt's False Prophet, by Nicholas Reeves, published by Thames & Hudson, 2005

Pharaohs of the Sun, by Rita E. Freed, Yvonne J. Markowitz, and Sue H. D'Auria, published by Thames & Hudson, 1999

£10 Poms

Australia: A Biography of a Nation, by Philip Knightley, published by Vintage, 2001

'Ten Pound Poms': Australia's Invisible Migrants, by A.James Hammerton and Alistair Thomson, published by Manchester University Press, 2006

General

The Heritage Crusade and the Spoils of History, David Lowenthal, Cambridge University Press 1999

The Nature of History, by Arthur Marwick, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

The Practice of History, by Geoffrey Elton, published by Blackwell, 2001

What is History? by E. H. Carr, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2001

What is History Now? by David Cannadine, published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004


If you're interested in finding out more about history relating to our earlier programmes, we've a selection of suggested further reading material for you

Burial Practices in Roman Britain: A survey of grave treatment and furnishing, AD43-410 by R.Philpott, British Archaeological Report 219, published by Oxford, 1991. ISBN 0860547256

Civilains On Rome's Northern Frontier by Robin Birley, published by The Roman Army Museum.

Crime and Detection(Eyewitness Guides) by Brian Lane, Dorling Kindersley, 1998, ISBN 0751361232

Death and Burial in the Roman World by J.M.C.Toynbee, reprinted by John Hopkins University Press in 1996. ISBN 0801855071

Experiencing Rome: culture, identity and power in the Roman Empire by J.Huskingson (ed), published by London, Open Univeristy and Routledge, 2000. ISBN 0415212847

Garrison Life at Vindolanda - A Band of Brothers by Anthony R Birley, published by Tempus Publication.

Hadrian's Wall by David J.Breeze and Brian Dobson, published by Gardner's Books, 2000

Hadrian's Wall by Guy de la Bedoyere, published by Temus Publishing Ltd, 1998

Hadrian's Wall from the Air by Barry Jones and David Wolliscroft, published by Tempus Publishing Ltd, 2001

Historians on History by John Tosh, Longman, ISBN: 0582357950

The Best of Hadrian's Wall by Robin Birley, published by the Roman Army Museum.

The Nature of History, by Arthur Marwick, 3rd Edition, published by Macmillan. ISBN: 0333432355

The Origins of the First World War , Controversies and Consensus, by Annika Mombauer, published by Longman, 2002. ISBN: 0582418720

The African Emporor: Septimius Severus by A.R.Birley, published by Batsford, 1998 London. ISBN 0713456949

Total War and Social Change by A. Marwick (ed.), published by Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1988 ISBN: 0333455916

Something to Write Home About: Letters and Memories of a Wartime Soldier by P.Steggall, Ipswich, 1997. ISBN: 0953133508

Studying History, by Jeremy Black and Donald M. MacRaild,2nd. Edition, Palgrave Study Guides, ISBN: 0-333-80183-0.

Vindolanda Extraordinary records of daily life on the Northern Frontier by Robin Birley, published by the Roman Army Museum.

Volcanoes and the environment, by GRJ Ernst and J. Marti; (eds.), published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2005.

Volcanic degassing, by C. Oppenheimer, D.M.Pyle, and J Barclay, (eds), published by the Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 213, 2003.

Volcanism and the Earth’s Atmosphere, by A.Robock, and C. Oppenheimer, (eds.), published by AGU Geophysical Monograph 139, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC, 2004.

What Is History? by E.H. Carr, Penguin, ISBN: 0-14-013584-7

The Pursuit of History: Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of Modern History, by John Tosh, 3rd. Edition

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