Collected Biographies

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 ...

FOREWORD BY PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY When Constance Markievicz stood for election as MP for Dublin St Patrick's in 1918, few people believed she...

By August 1918 fortune was on the side of the Allies: America was increasing its contribution of troops and equipment substantially; the morale of ...

Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics in public health? That Marie Curie is still the only person to have won the ...

Winner of: National Science Teachers Foundation/Children's Book Council, Outstanding Science Trade Book Award Against all oddsthe paths forged by t...