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The Normans in the South

The Kingdom in the Sun

Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell)

Sahara

Venice: The Rise to Empire

Venice: The Greatness and the Fall

Byzantium: The Early Centuries

Byzantium: The Apogee

Byzantium: The Decline and Fall

The Architecture of Southern England

Fifty Years of Glyndebourne

Shakespeare’s Kings

Paradise of Cities

The Middle Sea: A History of the Mediterranean

Trying to Please

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Christmas Crackers, 1970–79

More Christmas Crackers, 1980–89

Still More Christmas Crackers, 1990–99

The Big Bang: Christmas Crackers 2000–2009