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Lacking even the most basic mechanical knowhow Tim Moore sets out to cross Trumpland USA in an origi..

A story from The Prisoner’s Defence a collection of First World War short stories. Women’s contr..

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In 1940 Britain stood perilously close to invasion. One by one the nations of Europe had fallen and ..

Helen Rappaport’s masterful telling of the outbreak of the Russian Revolution through eye-witness ..

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Meadowland gives a unique and intimate account of an English meadow’s life from January to Decembe..

Written nearly 50 years ago Barbara Cartland's Etiquette Handbook conjures up a time when addressing..

From renowned booze correspondent Henry Jeffreys comes this rich and full-bodied history of Britain ..

This is the story of the last acrimonious days of The Beatles a final chapter reconstructing for the..

Wallis Simpson stole the king's heart and rocked the monarchy - but she was not Edward VIII's first ..