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Actors Talk About Shakespeare
Actors Talk About Shakespeare
Bravo, Shakespeare. Even today, his plays challenge celebrated actors to hone their skills and electrify audiences. Imagine the process actors undergo to recreate these spellbinding roles o...
Shakespeare & Me
Shakespeare And Me : 38 Great Writers, Actors and Directors on What the Bard Means to Them - And Us
Why Shakespeare? It's been 400 years since his death and yet we continue to find inspiration, revelation, solace, and e...
Royal British Legion
Royal British Legion : 90 Years of Heroes
The Royal British Legion was founded in 1921. It is now the country's leading charity providing financial, social and emotional support to those who have served or who are curre...
A Higher World
A Higher World : Scotland 1707-1815
Michael Fry here applies his uniquely wide-ranging procedures of Scottish historical analysis to the eighteenth century, which gave this small nation its one era of truly global signi...
Archive Buildings in the United Kingdom 1993-2005
Archive Buildings in the United Kingdom 1993-2005
In two parts - the first, a guide to good practice in the design and construction of archive buildings - the second, containing a number of case studies of individual bu...
Arena of Ambition
Arena of Ambition : The History of the Cambridge Union
Older than fourteen colleges and the Boat Race, the Cambridge Union has been an important part of university life at Cambridge since its foundation in 1815. Ex-Pres...
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
A selection of well-loved tales from Chaucer's literary masterpiece retold in humorous comic-strip style. Travel back to Medieval England and join Chaucer and his band of Canterbury pilgrims i...
Dig WW2
Dig WWII : Rediscovering the Great Wartime Battles
When the bitter conflict of the Second World War drew to a close, Britain quietly busied herself with getting back to normal. As the men returned from the battlefields ...
Edward Bawden in the Middle East
Edward Bawden in the Middle East
Edward Bawden was one of the original official war artists during the Second World War. For five years, Bawden was prevented from continuing to work as a printmaker, designer and book il...
Edwardian Farm
Edwardian Farm
Following on from the hit BBC series Victorian Farm, this book accompanies a new 12-part BBC series. This time, Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn take a leap forward in time to immerse themselve...
Exmouth at War
Exmouth At War : Life on the Home Front in Devon During World War II
In this book the author looks at his home town
of Exmouth during the war years, drawing on
years of collecting information and images, and
interviewin...
Good and Proper Men
Good and Proper Men : Lord Palmerston and the Bench of Bishops
In the late-18th and early-19th centuries, dioceses were large and bishops were few and far between. Much of their time was spent, necessarily, in London, a...
Lewis Carroll : A Biography
Lewis Carroll : A Biography
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson was a pioneering photographer, Oxford don and mathematician, who - as Lewis Carroll - gave the world not only Alice, but the Jabberwocky, the Red Queen, the Mad Hatte...
Little History of Britain
Little History of Britain : Revolting Peasants & Ropey Royals
Lots of pomp and circumstance have gone on since Julius Caesar first came, saw and conquered, but this doughty little book heroically captures the true essen...
Love Among The Ruins
Love Among The Ruins: A Memoir Of Life And Love In Hamburg, 1945
At 22, the war is over for RAF serviceman Harry Leslie Smith - the now 92-year-old activist and author of the acclaimed Harry's Last Stand - but the battl...
Monarch of all I survey
Monarch Of All I Survey : Bechuanaland Diaries 1929-37
These diaries are a candid record of eight years of triumph and frustration in the reform and development of an African colony. They also reflect wider events: the ...
Nazi Thug to British Mayor
Nazi Thug To British Mayor
This powerful account of one man's transformation from fanatical Hitler Youth member to respected British mayor provides a fascinating portrayal of German civil and military life during the ri...
Out Of Nowhere
Out Of Nowhere : A History of the Military Sniper, from the Sharpshooter to Afghanistan
The sniper is probably the most feared specialist warrior and the most efficient killer on the battlefield. Endlessly patient and h...
Pop Art: A Colourful History
Pop Art: A Colourful History
Pop Art by the BBC's Alastair Sooke - an essential but snappy new guide to our favourite art movement Pop Art is the most important 20th-century art movement. It brought Modernism to the mas...
Six Tudor Queens: Katherine Of Aragon, The True Queen
Katherine of Aragon : The True Queen
Katherine of Aragon: The True Queen by bestselling historian Alison Weir, author of The Lost Tudor Princess, is the first in a spellbinding six novel series about Henry VIII's Queens...
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