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Benjamin Franklin In London
Benjamin Franklin in London
For the great majority of his long life, Benjamin Franklin was a loyal British royalist. In 1757, having made his fortune in Philadelphia and established his fame as a renowned experimental s...
Eavesdropping On Jane Austen's England
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England : How our ancestors lived two centuries ago
Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's England explores the real England of Jane Austen's lifetime. It was a troubled period, with disturbing ch...
The Real Tudors
The Real Tudors : Kings and Queens Rediscovered
Who were the Tudor kings and queens and what did they really look like? Mention Henry VIII and the familiar image of the rotund, bearded fellow of Hans Holbein the Younger...
Wellington
Wellington : Triumphs, Politics and Passions
This new book about the 1st Duke of Wellington provides a novel take on the traditional biography in that it explores the life of this complex man through portraits of Wellin...
Prince Arthur
Prince Arthur : The Tudor King Who Never Was
During the early part of the sixteenth century England should have been ruled by King Arthur Tudor, not Henry VIII. Had the first-born son of Henry VII - Arthur, Prince of Wa...
The Call Of Steam
The Call of Steam
In The Call of Steam, Robert Adley tells the story of his remarkable mission to photograph in colour the dying days of steam locomotion on British Rail. The story takes us from mainline station to engi...
VE Day
VE Day: A Day To Remember
The authors have compiled a collection of memories and anecdotes from celebrities and members of the public covering their experiences of the Second World War and the day that Victory over the ...
A Chasm in Time
A Chasm In Time. Scottish War Art and Artists in the Twentieth Century
This is the first study of Scottish war art and artists of the twentieth century. A fascinating visual record of Scotland's experience of conflict, ...
A Fascist in the Family
A Fascist In The Family
John Beckett was a rising political star. Elected as Labour's youngest M.P. in 1924, he was constantly in the news and tipped for greatness.
But ten years later he was propaganda chief for Mosl...
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...
A Is For Arsenic
A IS for Arsenic : The Poisons of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie revelled in the use of poison to kill off unfortunate victims in her books; indeed, she employed it more than any other murder method, with the poison it...
Adrift
Adrift : A Secret life of London's Waterways
Journeying along London's waterways on a canal boat called Pike, Helen Babbs puts down roots for two weeks at a time before moving on. From Walthamstow Marsh in the east to U...
Agincourt Myth and Reality 1415-2015
Agincourt : Myth & Reality 1415-2015
The overwhelming victory of Henry V's English army at Agincourt in October 1415 has passed into myth - as one of the defining events of the Hundred Years War against France, as a fea...
Angels & Urchins
Angels & Urchins. The fancy Picture in 18th century British Art.
The 'fancy picture' was a staple of 18th century British art, although it originated in the Low Countries. This is the first book devoted to fancy pictur...
Archaeological History of Britain
Archaeological History Of Britain
Jonathan Eaton has provided the essential volume for all students of Archaeology, Classical Civilisations and Ancient History by condensing the entire archaeological history of Britain ...
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...
Bannockburn Battle for Liberty
Bannockburn : Battle for Liberty
The Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 was one of the decisive battles of British history. The bitter hostility between England and Scotland which had continued since 1296, the contrasting ch...
Beyond The Reach Of Empire
Beyond The Reach of Empire : Wolseley's Failed Campaign to Save Gordon and Khartoum
In the early 1880s the Mahdi unleashed a spectacularly successful jihadist uprising against Egyptian colonial rule in the Sudan. Early ...
Billy Bishop Lone Wolf Hunter
Billy Bishop Lone Wolf Hunter : The RAF Ace Re-Examined
William Avery Bishop - best known as Billy - has been hailed as the British Empire's highest-scoring World War I fighter ace. Officially credited with victory in s...
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