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A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome.
...The Notebook has shaped the world for eight hundred years. In medieval Italy, the blank ledger transformed international trade, and enabled the intellectual artistic advances of the Renaissance. At...
Discover the fascinating stories behind 300 species of fungi and understand the world of mushrooms like never before! Did you know that fungi put the fizz in champagne and the flavour in chocolate?...
With treasures from the Liberty archives including classic silk scarves, designs spanning over a century and original sketches for Liberty Art Fabrics, this is the official invitation into a London...
From the famous quote ‘Let them eat cake’ – mistakenly attributed to Marie Antoinette – to the apocryphal horns that adorned Viking helmets, fake history continues to shape ...
Earth is home to 23 billion chickens, at least ten times more than any other bird. For every human on the planet, there are three chickens. Despite being capable of flying only a few metres, this m...
As the sun set slowly on the British Empire in the years after the Second World War, the nation’s stately homes were in crisis. Tottering under the weight of rising taxes and a growing sense ...
In 1944, Helen Duncan was charged with witchcraft under the 1735 Witchcraft Act and was jailed for the duration of World War II. ‘Hellish Nell’ was first published in 2001 to widespread...
For decades, a single free market philosophy has dominated global economics. But this is bland and unhealthy – like British food in the 1980s, when bestselling author and economist Ha-Joon Ch...
The History of Colour explores the rich history of human’s relationship with colour, from ancient times to today.
...A charming, humorous guide on nighttime manners for married couples, first published in the 1930s.
...What is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, ‘reverse migrating’ from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest Chin...
A dazzling dictionary of book blurbs, filled with writing tips, literary folklore and publishing secrets
...A groundbreaking never-before-seen view into North Korea through the lives of six ordinary citizens by an award-winning foreign correspondent.
...‘Re-sisters’ is the story of three women consumed by their passion for life, a passion they expressed through music, art and lifestyle – their recordings. In 2018, boundary-breaki...
Enter a world of ancient secrets, old money, new ambitions and the discovery of priceless treasure in this revelatory new biography.
...We may all feel we know what an ‘English’ garden is, but do we really? ‘England’s Gardens’ offers a holistic, modern-day tour and an update on the history of some of t...
For most of human history nature was held to be sacred, and our God or gods were believed to be present everywhere in nature. That was true of almost all the world’s cultures and religious tr...
In 2020, an extraordinary trove of nearly a thousand photographs taken by Paul McCartney on a 35mm camera was re-discovered in his archive. They intimately record the months towards the end of 1963...
The lives of Jim Ede and the Kettle’s Yard artists represent a thrilling tipping point in twentieth-century modernism: a new guard, a new way of making and seeing, and a new way of living wit...
This work contains a collection of the world’s most mind-boggling, thought-provoking and downright hilarious theories – by the co-host of the popular podcast ‘No Such Thing As A F...
The gripping account of how the IRA came astonishingly close to killing Margaret Thatcher
...Christian Wolmar describes the emergence of modern railways in both Britain and the USA in the 1830s, and elsewhere in the following decade. He charts the surge in railway investment plans in Brita...
A comprehensive, illustrated history of the British heritage industry, from art historian and former Sotheby’s Chairman James Stourton.
...Ever since The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien was first published in 1937 the popularity of the vast, imaginative world he created has only increased over time. What is about Middle-Earth and the charact...