The Dead Sea: A Photo Gallery – Nir Arielli
The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters…
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Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
Fear was the unacknowledged spectre haunting the streets of London during the Second World War; fear not only of death from the German bombers…
Connick’s Adventures in Light and Colour in 6 Images
The life and work of Charles J. Connick (1875-1945), America’s foremost stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century, is…
England’s Cathedrals: A Timeline — by Nicholas Orme
Nicholas Orme’s The History of England’s Cathedrals is the first history of the life and activities of all English cathedrals, from Birmingham and Bury…
The Gunpowder Plot: ‘The Most Horrible Treason’
5 November, 1605: A plot to blow up the House of Lords with gunpowder is thwarted when explosives expert Guy Fawkes is caught red-handed…
Backbone of the Nation – 50 Years in 50 Books
In his groundbreaking new history, Robert Gildea interviews the miners and their families who fought to defend themselves against Thatcher’s goverment. Exploring mining communities…
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes – 50 Years in 50 Books
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes draws on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, to create an intellectual history of…
A Curious Tour of Dickens’s London
From vanishing coaching inns to submerged riverside stairs, hidden burial grounds to apocryphal shops, tourists have sought out the landmarks, streets, and alleys of…
The Persians by Homa Katouzian – 50 Years in 50 Books
The Persians is an authoritative and comprehensive history of Iran, first published in 2009. Homa Katouzian integrates the significant cultural and literary history of…
A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
From vanishing coaching inns and submerged riverside stairs to hidden burial grounds and apocryphal shops… In his new book Dickensland, Lee Jackson traces the…
Dirty Old London by Lee Jackson – 50 Years in 50 Books
Dirty Old London was published in 2014. Lee Jackson’s book tells us how Victorian reformers struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and…
75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
Andrew Seaton’s Our NHS, a History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution explores the full 75-year history of the NHS, from foundation and modernisation to crisis…
The Great Plague: A People’s History
In 1665, the plague returned with a vengeance, cutting a long and deadly swathe through the British Isles. Though the murderous contagion eventually came…
The Story of Auld Lang Syne
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years…
Christmas in London Under Cromwell
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century…