The Best of Kipper Williams: All in Tents and Porpoises
Book
Kipper Williams is one of Britain's most adaptable and popular cartoonists, best-known for the...
The English Castles Story
Book
It was not until after the Norman Conquest that British castles, as we think of them today, came...
The Ghana Reader: History, Culture, Politics
Kwasi Konadu and Clifford C. Campbell
Book
Covering 500 years of Ghana's history, The Ghana Reader provides a multitude of historical,...
The Joy of Pubs: Everything You Wanted to Know About Britain's Favourite Drinking Establishment
Book
Following on in the same vain of The Joy of Sheds, The Joy of Pubs is an intoxicating publication...
The Lore of the Playground: One Hundred Years of Children's Games, Rhymes and Traditions
Book
From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and...
The Sinking of the Lancastria: Britain's Greatest Maritime Disaster and Churchill's Cover-up
Book
A fortnight after the evacuation at Dunkirk some 150,000 British troops were still stuck in France....
Titanic Scandal: The Trial of the Mount Temple
Book
A steamer lay within sight of the RMS Titanic as she sank, according to ample witnesses - including...
Union Castle Liners: from Great Britain to Africa 1946-1977
Book
It was one of the most important British liner routes of all - the express run from Southampton to...
Visiting the Past: A Guide to Finding and Understanding Britain's Archaeology
Book
Archaeology is all around us in the British landscape and yet, despite the success of programmes...
Whatever Happened to Tanganyika?: The Place Names That History Left Behind
Book
Do you still find yourself referring to Zaire or Czechoslovakia, or wondering whether it should be...