
‘Working Mothers’ – An extract from Bread Winner by Emma Griffin
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
In Mob Town: A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End, John Bennett delves into four…
A unique, in-depth view of London during the record-breaking hot weather of 1858, Rosemary Ashton’s One Hot Summer uncovers crucial…
The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder by Linda Stratmann – a BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice –…
The Secret Poisoner: A Century of Murder by Linda Stratmann – a BBC Radio 2 Book Club choice –…
Linda Stratmann‘s latest book – and BBC Radio 2 Book Club’s recent choice – The Secret Poisoner: A Century…
‘I don’t think there’s a trade publishing house producing high-calibre, serious non-fiction of the quality and variety of Yale.’…
Giles Waterfield’s The People’s Galleries is a wide-ranging examination of the phenomenon of the art museum in Britain, from its early…
‘The fact that sewers and cesspools brought miasma into the home was an important factor, creating powerful anxieties. Fear of…
‘Many myths and ‘factoids’ appear on the web and in print. They are often incorrect…’ Throughout this month,…
‘The capital was increasingly blighted by darker, longer visitations of gloom; and doctors were able to collect more…
‘The Lady’s Newspaper, keen to plug a new shopping street, waxed lyrical: ‘the most loathsome of the haunts of vice…
‘The idea that women – particularly respectable women – might want or need purpose-built public toilets, on the streets of the capital,…
‘They claimed the hint of mud added to the liquid’s vital properties.’ Throughout this month, Lee Jackson reveals…
‘Sewer workers were sent to unblock tunnels clogged with everything from ‘coals, cinders, bottles, broken pots’ to ‘old…