Poet's Tale: Chaucer and the Year That Made the Canterbury Tales
Book
As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-aged bureaucrat and sometime poet, living in...
Queen of the Courtesans: Fanny Murray
Book
Fanny Murray (1729-1778) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and...
Dr. John Moore, 1729-1802: A Life in Medicine, Travel, and Revolution
Book
This book is the first biography of Scottish-born physician John Moore. Here, Henry L. Fulton...
Charters of Chertsey Abbey
Book
This is the first complete modern edition of the early charters of Chertsey Abbey in Surrey, one of...
Home Country
Richard Mabey, Andrew Motion and Paul Nash
Book
The Chilterns: that great chalk enscarpment of southern England, studded with beechwood, intercut...
A History of the East Coast Main Line
Book
Since the mid-nineteenth century the East Coast Main Line has been one of the major routes from...
The Terrible Business of Salmon & Dusk
Podcast
In this podiobook: Part film noir detective story, part fantasy adventure, part East End gangster...
Medea
Book
If there's a God, which at the moment I DOUBT, I want you to curse him. If there's any justice, I...
Ramiro de Maeztu and England: Imaginaries, Realities and Repercussions of a Cultural Encounter
Book
Ramiro de Maeztu was one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth...
The Sketchbooks of Chris Wilkinson
Chris Wilkinson and Charles Saumarez Smith
Book
Despite being at the forefront of high-tech innovation in architecture, Chris Wilkinson obe ra is an...