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Victorian Marriage

Mandell Creighton (1843-1901) was a famous historian and the first editor of the English Historical Review. His intelligence and energy made an impression upon everyone he met. Admired by Queen Victor...

Six Wives

No one in history had a more eventful career in matrimony than Henry VIII. His marriages were daring and tumultuous, and made instant legends of six very different women. In this remarkable study, Dav...

The Victim's Fortune

Two reporters from the Financial Times piece together the compelling story of the campaign on the part of a group of attorneys, politicians, and Jewish advocates to root out money looted by the Nazis...

Black and British

'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times In this vital re-examinatio...

The Story of the Roman Amphitheatre

The Roman amphitheatre was a site both of bloody combat and marvellous spectacle, symbolic of the might of Empire; to understand the importance of the amphitheatre is to understand a key element in th...

Clapham Past

The Murder of Dr Muldoon

A priest and his housekeeper abandon a baby girl on the doorstep of a house near the Black Church in Dublin's north inner city in February 1923. Three local women notice the couple's suspicious behavi...

William Wallace

By no means prepared by birth, education or training for leadership, Wallace nevertheless rose to prominence during the Wars of Independence, leading forces which broke the sequence of English victori...

Astonishing Splashes of Colour

Emotionally stalled after losing her mother and suffering a miscarriage, childlike Kitty observes her world through a series of high and low moods, struggles to uncover childhood secrets, and finds th...

Northanger Abbey

When Trumpets Call

From the author of the acclaimed Five of Hearts, this highly praised, spell-binding biography is the definitive account of TR's final decade, the most poignant -- and in some ways, the most heroic --...

Wisden On The Great War

Readers of the 1917 Wisden Cricketers' Almanack were advised by the editor, Sydney Pardon: Its chief feature is a record of the cricketers who have fallen in the War - the Roll of Honour, so far as t...