Archaeology

Piltdown. Even today the name sends a shiver down the collective spine of the scientific community, for this was the most dramatic and daring fraud...

Vilified publicly as a pedophile, William Beckford sought refuge in his Fonthill estate where he amassed works of art fit for a king. He resided in...

Many of Londons original power stations have either been demolished, converted for other use, or stand derelict awaiting redevelopment that is seem...

Latin was for many centuries the common literary language of Europe, and Latin literature of immense range, stylistic power and social and politica...

Most books about Celtic saints are based on their legendary medieval lives. This book, however, is based upon our earliest surviving information: a...

Northumbria was one of the great kingdoms of Britain in the Dark Ages, enduring longer than the Roman Empire. Yet it has been all but forgotten. Th...

This book provides an accessible and authoritative biography of the Welsh man of science, William Robert Grove. Grove was an important and highly i...

The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. The ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersey and Dee; the Seft...

This volume envisions social practices surrounding mosques, shrines and public spaces in urban contexts as a window on the diverse ways in which Mu...

En Garde! is a small-scale skirmish game based on the successful Ronin rules, in which small groups of warriors fight each other for honour or rich...

Ten million military personnel died during the Great War. Many millions of them experienced horrendous enemy attacks on entrenched positions that s...

First full-length account of St Stephen's Chapel, bringing out its full importance and influence throughout the Middle Ages. In St Stephen's Colle...

At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters - dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals - who, by their very presence, alte...

Few countries went through the level of interest and development of pleasure piers like the United Kingdom. Built during the Victorian age and earl...

Irelands history has been shaped by the many invaders who have set foot on the countrys shores. For centuries conflict raged amongst the native Iri...

Harold Godwinson, King of England, was unable to defend his realm from William the Conquerors invading Norman army in 1066. The Normans wreaked hav...