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Synopsis This is the extraordinary tale of the father of modern geology and his contribution to society. Hidden behind velvet curtains above a stai...

Synopsis Stephen Clarke takes a penetrating look into those murky depths, guiding us through all the times when Britain and France have been at war...

Synopsis Subtitled : Visionaries, Rebels & Revolutionaries - The Men & Women Who Fought For Our Freedoms. From medieval Runnymede to twenti...

Synopsis Subtitled : 'or 2000 Years of Upper Class Idiots in Charge'. Many of us were put off history by the dry and dreary way it was taught at sc...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Art of Victory in The Age of Sail. This book is a brilliant study of those naval battles of Horatio Nelson which played su...

Synopsis The tall, handsome Abdul Karim was just twenty-four years old when he arrived in England from Agra to wait at tables during Queen Victoria...

Synopsis Tales from the Hanging Court draws on published accounts of Old Bailey trials from 1674-1834, a rich seam of social, political and legal h...

Synopsis Bletchley Park has played a vital role in British history. This Victorian country house in the Buckinghamshire countryside was was where ...

Synopsis For two and half thousand years the ancient Celts have continued to fascinate all who have come into contact with them. The archetypal `b...

Synopsis Subtitled : "As Commemorated In The Sandhurst Companies." A team of military historians (under the guidance of David Chandler, head of the...

Synopsis It all started with a long distance cycle ride. Inspired by a chance discovery, Robb became fascinated with the world of the Celts: their ...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Great War & The Twentieth Century. The First World War shaped the 20th Century at home and abroad, through the widenin...

Synopsis One of the great minds of the 19th Century, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was responsible for some of the most impressive engineering feats of h...

Synopsis Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports sh...

Synopsis Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's vil...

Synopsis At Waterloo, some 70,000 men under Napoleon and an equal number under Wellington faced one another in a titanic battle. Alessandro Barbero...

Synopsis RAF Fighter Command, formed in 1936, did indeed play a vital role in the Second World War. During the Dunkirk evacuation its pilots flew 2...

Synopsis Illustrated with striking photographs and useful maps. Urban & industrial historian & prolific author Anthony Burton offers an ori...

Synopsis Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of ...