This fascinating book looks at a typical day in a big house, the relationship between the master and..

In the heart of south-central Africa there are remains of monuments, ruined cities, temples, forts, ..

From St Augustine in the sixth century to Rowan Williams in the twenty-first, the archbishops of Can..

The first book to tackle the subject in forty years, the true extent of the Viking discovery and col..

In 1918, as the First World War was drawing to a close, the eminent liberal industrial Lord Leverhul..

On 24 March 1939, twelve-year-old Gerald Wiener waved goodbye to his family in Berlin as he set off ..

Between the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, Lady Augusta Gregory welcomed numerous dist..

On town streets or in green fields, at fairs, race meetings and saints' patron days, rival gangs of ..

In 'Paper Tiger', the Chinese journalist and intellectual Xu Zhiyuan paints a portrait of the world'..

In this scintillating book, Ian Buruma peels away the myths that surround Japanese culture. With pie..

The gripping true story of bitter rivalries on the high seas, a brilliant 17th-Century pirate captai..

Tim Marshall's global bestseller Prisoners of Geography showed how every nation's choices are limite..

London's Waterloo Station is Britain's biggest and busiest railway terminal and, at over 170 years o..

The Political Martyrs memorial in Edinburgh looms large on the city's skyline but its history is rel..

In 1915, Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson were asked by the War Ministry to establish a new ..