Author: Webb Simon

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...

A century before Britain became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and other Eu...

There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives'' tale arose because torture ha...