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London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes and many ...
Harland and Wolff, once acknowledged as the greatest and best-known shipbuilding company in the world, for many years enjoyed a mighty eminence before a gradual ...
Most people today think of Winston Churchill as simply the wartime British bulldog - a jowly, cigar-chomping old fighter demanding blood, sweat and tears from his ...
Alistair Moffat traces the history of the clans from their Celtic origins to the coming of the Romans; from Somerled the Viking to Robert the ...
Written as an engrossing detective story by the leading authority, this is the first major attempt in nearly eighty years to deal with the core ...
The story of the science, the technology, the politics and the military applications of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance that governments from the Tudors ...
In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has ...
Benjamin Thorpe (1781/2-1870) was a scholar of Old English and Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Munich. Through his work, he sought ...
Pamela Mountbatten was born at the end of the Twenties into one of Britain's grandest families. The daughter of Lord Louis Mountbatten and his ...
Who were the first Britons, and what sort of world did they occupy? In A HISTORY OF ANCIENT BRITAIN Neil Oliver turns a spotlight on ...
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway ...
The first biography in many years of Henry IIIThe son and successor of Bad King John, Henry III reigned for 56 years from 1216, the ...
How the Wars of the Roses were won and lost by the political and dynastic skills of the royal women: this is the true story ...
The ghosts of the British Empire continue to haunt today's international scene and many of the problems faced by the Empire have still not ...
