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1974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of t...

How well do you know London? Here are 400 provocative, curious and humorous questions to enlighten and entertain.Even the most devoted Londoner wil...

1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 1...

London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centurie...

Robin Hood is England's greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison's h...

Bram Stoker's Dracula, still the most famous of all vampire stories, was first published in 1897. But the bloodsucking Count was not the only membe...

London, 1871. Traveller, photographer and sometime intelligencer Adam Carver is asked by a friend from the Foreign Office to find Dolly Delaney, a ...

Connecting people with places, Londons distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in o...

It is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Stre...

Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will fo...

Robin Hood is England's greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison's h...

A large number of people each year make their reading decisions on the basis of prizes like the Booker and Orange Guide to Fiction. This new title ...