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Synopsis Subtitled : Ten Entrepreneurs Who Built Britain. Britain's rise to global dominance from the 16th century onwards owed as much to the vi...

Synopsis Full Subtitle : 22nd January 1879 : Minute by Minute. The battle of Isandlwana on 22 January 1879 was one of the most dramatic episodes ...

Synopsis Film Tie-In Edition. Based in Part on "Team of Rivals - The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln" by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and es...

Synopsis Subtitled : The Rise & Fall of the Victorian City. Victorian cities, so long the object of derision as a byword for deprivation, are...

Synopsis These journals cover the period from 1848 to 1882 provide a fascinating insight into the days she spent with her family in her much belo...

Synopsis What is Europe? Firstly, of course, it is a continent made up of countless disparate peoples, races and nations, and governed by different...

Synopsis Subtitled : Venice in The 19th Century. An obligatory stop on the Grand Tour for any cultured Englishman (and, later, Americans), Venice l...

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 This volume forms part of the Life and Times series of compact and accessible biographies which cover key political, literary and musical ...

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