Two young British history writers: Giles Milton and Tom Holland

Giles Milton specializes in the history of exploration

• The Riddle and the Knight: In Search of Sir John Mandeville (1996)
• Nathaniel’s Nutmeg: How One Man’s Courage Changed the Course of History (1999) about the Dutch
• Big Chief Elizabeth: The Adventures and Fate of the First English Colonists in America (2000)
• Samurai William: The Englishman Who Opened Japan (2002)
• White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow and North Africa’s One Million European Slaves (2005)
• Paradise Lost: Smyrna 1922 (2008)
• Wolfram: The Boy Who Went To War (2011)

and Tom Holland writes about empires of history:

• Rubicon: The Last Years of the Roman Republic (2003)
• Persian Fire: The First World Empire and the Battle for the West (2005)
• Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom (2008)

Here a third one: Andrew Robinson writes about history of science and India:

• The Coasts of India together with Ashvin Mehta (1987)
• Maharaja: The Spectacular Heritage of Princely India together with Sumio Uchiyama (1988)
• Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye (1989)
• The Art of Rabindranath Tagore (1989)
• The Shape of the World together with Simon Berthon (1991)
• Earth Shock: Hurricanes, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Tornadoes & Other Forces of Nature (1993)
• Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-minded Man together with Krishna Dutta (1995)
• Rabindranath Tagore: An Anthology together with Krishna Dutta and Rabindranath Tagore (1997)
• Selected Letters of Rabindranath Tagore together with Krishna Dutta and Rabindranath Tagore (1997)
• The Story of Writing: Alphabets, Hieroglyphs and Pictograms (2000)
• The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris (2002)
• Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World’s Great Undeciphered Scripts (2002)
• Satyajit Ray, The Inner Eye: The Biography of a Master Film-Maker (2003)
• Satyajit Ray: A Vision of Cinema (2005)
• Einstein: A Hundred Years of Relativity (2005)
• The Last Man Who Knew Everything: Thomas Young, The Anonymous Polymath Who Proved Newton Wrong, Explained How We See, Cured the Sick, and Deciphered the Rosetta Stone, Among Other Feats of Genius (2006)
• The Story of Measurement (2007)
• Writing and Script (2009)