Author: Simon Webb

All nations and peoples have a body of legendary tales and semi-historical episodes which explain who they are and help to define their place in th...

This book tells the fascinating story of the origin of our ideas about wizards, witches and fairies. We all have a clear mental image of the pointe...

Seven years after the Roman invasion of Britain in ad 43, Londinium was created. It would rise to become one of the most important Roman cities in ...

In the years since the 7/7 attacks on the London transport system, many people in Britain seem to have become convinced that we live in uniquely da...

Taking you through the year day by day, The Colchester Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from differe...

Do you remember playing in streets free of traffic? Dancing to the Beatles? Watching a man land on the Moon on TV? Waking up to ice on the inside o...

Unearthing London reveals the almost-forgotten ritual landscape which lies hidden beneath the streets of the modern capital. It is the city nobody ...

This is not a guidebook. This little book brings together past and present to offer a taste of Kensington & Chelsea. Learn about the movers and...

What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles or the Internet? Imagine a time when shari...

When the citizens of Cooper's Creek vote Ned Turner to be their sheriff, they are blind to what a deadly mistake they are making: Turner is a lawle...

When Anthony Armstrong returns to his hometown of Parson''s End after completing his studies at Harvard, he expects to spend a few quiet weeks lend...

1919; Britain's Year of Revolution tells the story of an almost unknown passage in British history. On the August Bank Holiday that year, the gover...