The first full biography for more than forty years of Hollywood legend, Carole Lombard

The Age of Emperors 28BC-476AD

Tithe Surveys for Historians

Salmons & Sons was founded in 1830 by Joseph Salmons and quickly became famous for its high-quali...

An account of the famous Fox sisters and the colourful Victorian spiritualist scene

Many books have been written which study the actions of the French or British armies during the N...

A chronological account of the campaigns on the Eastern Front

The rise and fall of the Romans 753-27 BC

A history of Churchill and Malta

Barbarossa to Berlin Vol 2

Adolphe Valette

A history of Chester

Wherever the Firing Line Extends

A history of Kennet & Avon canal navigation

The Roman Empire almost disintegrated in the 3rd Century AD, under the onslaught of barbarians an...

The Scarlet Ribbon follows James Quinn, a young Irish surgeon battling prejudice, suspicion and p...

THE LITTLE BOOK OF YOUGHAL is a compendium of fascinating, obscure, strange and entertaining fact...

A history of Lancaster

Of all the Allied generals in the Middle East and Europe in the Second World War, Bernard Montgom...

The Siege of Derry

This chronological account of the campaigns on the Eastern Front, following the German advance fr...

Capability Brown

Climb Mount Everest with Howard Somervell, who was alongside George Mallory in the first attempt ...

'Fascinating, rigorously researched, and vividly told... [a] groundbreaking biography.' -- Dr. An...

Through the study of archaeological evidence, Padstow can trace its history back almost 5,000 yea...

Sixty diverse cars. Sixty fascinating stories. Sixty contrasting specifications. One uniting fact...

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Second World War: from the highest-rated fighter ace...

Discover a delightful and unspoiled seaside village through this fact-packed compendium. Renowned...

The Royal Navy Day by Day is a magnificent chronicle of the Senior Service across 500 years, pres...

East Cork was a very dangerous area during the Irish War of Independence. Several major and minor...

Northumbria's Bloody History

Egypt's Golden Couple

This miscellany explores the fascinating and enigmatic world of Sherlock Holmes, his place in lit...

Have you ever wondered how the constellations got their names? Or wanted to know the stories of t...

Scotland's 'Stone of Destiny' is the most famous symbol of both Scottish nationhood and the Briti...

How to get sparks back in your life and keep them burning.

A funny, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information...

New updated edition in paperback

From Celtic myth to gothic horror, this book contains Scottish folk tales of love and loss in all...

Profiling 9 important naturalists of the pre-Darwinian age who set off to quantify, categorize an...

Commercial pilot's memoirs, from the orphanage to flying Concorde in its final years, ending his ...

The story of George Edwards, whose name is synonymous with the Vickers Viscount, the controversia...

A new study, for first time revealing the story of Greenvile Collins, hugely significant historic...

Examines the barbarians from Europe and beyond who harassed, eroded and eventually caused the dis...

A gripping, real-life 'Game of Thrones' story spanning the Viking Age

Frozen in time by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD, discover Herculaneum: a remarkable wind...

The untold story of how Cambridge University locked up women in their own private prison - and ho...

In AD 43, the area of south-east England now known as Surrey became part of the Roman Empire.