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We often think of wisdom as something reserved only for the elderly or educated and gained through life experience, however wisdom has a depth and ...

What Makes Great Art showcases a selection of 80 outstanding paintings and sculptures from around the world and throughout time, assessing just wha...

Charles Dickens is the definitive illustrated guide to the man and his works with images of documents from Dickens' personal archive written by one...

Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in...

Taking as her starting point images from the holdings of the National Portrait Gallery, London, writer and art historian Lucinda Hawksley explores ...

Winner: Best Trade Illustrated Book, British Book Design & Production Awards 2017 As to the arsenic scare a greater folly it is hardly possible...

The Victorian age was an era that witnessed enormous changes around Britain and affected vast swathes of the globe. It was a time of great inventio...

Katey Dickens was born into a house of turbulent celebrity and grew up surrounded by fascinating, famous, and infamous people. From a very young ag...

From childhood, Charles Dickens was fascinated by tales from other countries and other cultures, and he longed to see the world. In Dickens and Tra...

Dickens and Christmas is an exploration of the 19th-century phenomenon that became the Christmas we know and love today and of the writer who chang...

Over 2,000 years of history seen through the eyes of 50 extraordinary women. Was Jane Austen a fan of her own work? What did Harriet Tubman want to...

'When I was at primary school, my teacher asked if any of us had heard of Charles Dickens. I was amazed she knew his name, because, until that mome...

Satisfyingly replete with eye-popping stories Observer What was so dangerous about Queen Victorias artistic tempestuous sixth child, Princess Louis...

Elizabeth Revealed is a lively and affectionate celebration of The Queen's long and eventful life. This gorgeously illustrated book blends personal...

London is now some 2,000 years old, and for the last thousand has been one of the greatest cities on earth. Engulfed in calamities that seemed to m...

This highly readable and informative collection of the best of British art showcases magnificent portraits by Thomas Gainsborough and Stanley Spenc...