The majority of Nottinghamshire’s women remain unknown to history but they were often far from voiceless. The region’s female ...

Yvonne Singh details the lives and legacies of five Black British journalists who should be as well known as George Orwell.

A History of the Casualties of the First World War ...

The 2nd Argylls and Plymouth Argyll Royal Marines in Malaya and Singapore ...

Whitney Straight made his own way in life. Born in New York with a silver spoon in his mouth, he would earn his living in the board rooms of some of Britain’s greatest companies. He dropped out of ...

With over 60,000 combatants, the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on 1 July 1690 was the largest battle ever fought on Irish soil, and has long been regarded as the pivotal event of the ...

The real Dracula was far from Bram Stoker’s well-mannered aristocrat. Better known as Vlad the Impaler, he was named for his favoured execution method: running a spear through his victim’s lower body, ...

The South Wales Valleys once boasted the richest coalfields and the best anthracite coal in the world. Before the dawn of the twenty-first century all but one of the hundreds of coal pits were closed, ...

Although an idyllic setting, where violent crime is thankfully rare, the Channel Islands have a shadier side. Contained within the pages of this book are twenty-five historic cases of murder committed ...

Sean Boru, Jimmy White MBE (Foreword), ...

‘An excellent book. It was absolutely fascinating, and I learnt so much about the history of the Palace of Westminster and the unsung women who have helped to shape it.' The Rt Hon the Baroness Morgan ...

There had been stars before. There had been films prior to Cleopatra. But in all the cynical, greedy, magical, histrionic history of the movies, there had never been a combination like that of ...