Great Britain, history book series in reading order

by Terry Deary

by Andrew Lane

by Avi

Lucy Worsley is an English historian who writes about British royal history, palaces and domestic life. Twenty books are catalogued from 1998 to 2026, beginning with guides to Hardwick Old Hall (1998), Bolsover Castle (2001) and Hampton Court Palace (2005), then Cavalier (2007), Courtiers (2010) on the Georgian court at Kensington Palace, If Walls Could Talk (2011) and A Very British Murder (2013). Kings, queens, biography and social history run through the subjects, with children's titles among them, and Queens and Kings (2026) is the newest. Worsley was joint chief curator at Historic Royal Palaces from 2003 to 2024, presents history series for BBC Television and Channel 5, and was born in 1973.

Medieval history is Dan Jones's subject, most of it non-fiction: Summer of Blood (2009), The Plantagenets (2012), Magna Carta (2014), The Wars of the Roses (2014), The Templars (2017) and Crusaders (2019). Seventeen titles are catalogued through Castles (2026), and Essex Dogs is the one named series. British history from 1066 to 1485, kings and rulers and the Middle Ages fill the subject tags.

Who HQ is the credit on 429 children's nonfiction biographies in the catalogue, published from 2002 to 2026. The run opens with Who Was Albert Einstein?, Who Was Amelia Earhart? and Who Was Ben Franklin? (all 2002) and reaches Who Is Vera Wang (2026). Subjects include biography, history and juvenile nonfiction for readers aged 8 to 12. Other names credited on some of the books include Megan Stine (7), John Hinderliter (7) and Nico Medina (4).

Jim Eldridge, born November 1944, is an English screenwriter for radio, film and television with hundreds of scripts broadcast over a career of more than 30 years. Radio shows created by Eldridge include King Street Junior, The Demon Headmaster, Shut UP and Parsley Sidings, and television creations include Powers, Time of My Life and Uncle Jack. The catalogue holds 117 books from Down Payment On Death (1972) to The Museum Detectives' Christmas Mystery (2026), with Murder at the Vatican due in 2027. Bogeys, Boils And Bellybuttons (1986), Bad Boyes (1987) and Uncle Jack and Operation Green (1990) are early titles, and series include Museum Mysteries, Hotel Mysteries, Cathedral Mysteries, DCI Paul Stark, SAS and Disgusting Dave.

Jacqueline Wilson

178 books• 15 series

Jacqueline Wilson, born Jacqueline Aitken on 17 December 1945, is an English novelist who writes for children. Adoption, abuse and divorce are among the realistic topics the novels take on. Wilson made a debut in 1969 and has passed 100 books; this catalogue lists 178, the earliest dated entry being Hide And Seek (1972) and the latest The Seaside Sleepover (2025). Tracy Beaker, Hetty Feather, Girls, Sleepovers and Stevie Day are among the series. Friendship, sisters, family life and schools appear in the subject records.