Collected Biographies

For much of the First World War, the opposing armies on the Western Front were at a stalemate, with an unbroken line of fortified trenches stretchi...

At the end of 1917, after three years of trench warfare on the Western Front, the Allied armies of Britain and France, and those of their main oppo...

Published in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy, The Dictionary of Irish Biography is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical...

Seventeen-year-old Henry VIII was a youngling, he cares for nothing but girls and hunting. Over the years, this didnt change much. Henry was consid...

Thanks to Thomas Keneallys book Schindlers Ark, and the film based on it, Schindlers List, we have become more aware of the fact that, in the midst...

This book features the cases of six London women, each very different in temperament, age and status, who resorted to murder. Their reasons were va...

Cricket is a game that has always attracted mavericks and characters. Cantankerous batsmen, lethal bowlers, criminal wicket keepers and philanderin...

The landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 represented the greatest amphibious operation carried out during the course of the First W...

In 1817 a young woman of exotic appearance was found wandering near Bristol. She spoke in a language that no one could understand except, seemingly...

For almost sixty years after their deaths, three men, whose brave actions shortened the Second World War by as much as two years, remained virtuall...

February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates brave storms and ice to bring supplies to Antarctica. They hope to celebrate Captain Scot...

Merseyside has been the birthplace or home of literally hundreds of extraordinary men and women over the years. Modern-day noteworthy figures, such...

In August 1947 the British ended the 'Raj' and left India. Some stayed on; others who had grown up in India shortly returned there. Over the next s...

The development of forensic pathology in Britain is told here through the lives of five outstanding medical pioneers. Spanning seventy years, their...

The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found the...

During the opening four months of the First World War no fewer than forty-six soldiers from the British and Commonwealth armies were awarded the Vi...

Towards the end of September 1918 the Allied armies were poised to seize the Hindenburg Line the end of the war on the Western Front was at last i...

In this fresh and highly readable collection of South African biographical essays, a distinguished group of authors illuminate the lives of eleven ...