Collected Biographies

This selection of Times obituaries from 1872 to 2014 revisits the lives of 125 women who have all, in their own way, played an important part in wo...

Every Hussar who has served could write a book about their experiences in the Army. Experiences that were good and some that were bad. Each book wo...

In the spring of 2002, motivated by the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, National Football League stalwart Patrick Daniel Tillman turned down...

In the 1920s and 1930s, Edwina Salt Evelyn and Jewel Pepper Welch learned to tap dance on street corners in New York and Philadelphia. By the 19...

The untold stories of troops serving miles away from front lines.For decades, the dramatic stories of World War II soldiers have been the stuff of ...

There is more to the Victorian era than respectability, economic success and the grudging solution of the practical social problems they encountere...

The award-winning author presents a provocative, thoroughly modern revisionist biographical history of one of America's greatest and most influenti...

Alarmstart South completes Patrick Erikssons Alarmstart trilogy on Second World War German fighter pilots, detailing their experiences in the Medit...

As the world's demand for electrical energy increases, it will be the ingenuity and skill of brilliant electrochemists that enable us to utilize...

World War I was a slaughter on an unprecedented scale. Nevertheless there was no shortage of young men willing to sacrifice themselves for their co...

Doctor Who is the world's longest-running science fiction television series, and has had children hiding behind sofa's since it was first broadcast...

This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial...

A follow-up to Inside the Painter's Studio: 24 thought-provoking interviews with artists from a range of disciplines: painters, sculptors, photogra...

Everyone loves a romantic rogue whose exciting exploits feature a cheeky disregard for the law, narrow escapes and lots of love interest. Even at t...

When Henry VIII passed through Canterbury in 1532, a young woman in her mid-twenties named Elizabeth Barton, widely revered as a visionary and prop...

Much has been written and reported on the broad canvas of the history of County Wexford over the centuries, but Famous Wexfordians seeks to revital...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...

Deep Are the Roots celebrates the pioneers of Black British theatre, beginning in 1825, when Ira Aldridge made history as the first Black actor to ...

What better way to understand Britain during the twentieth century than through the eyes of those who experienced it at first hand? Travis Elboroug...

A detailed chronicle of this quirky band that rose to fame in the mid-seventies and are still touring today. Based around the in-depth interviews w...

This engrossing and often witty account tells the life stories of some 70 individuals who made the Middle Ages. There are kings and queens, popes a...

'Wonderfully readable ... Emphasises their sheer extraordinariness and celebrates them' MAIL ON SUNDAY. The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of up...

A Holocaust survivor whose mother collapsed and died only moments after they both registered as survivors, a death row inmate who has reclaimed his...