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The current feline tenant of 10 Downing Street, Larry, has captured the nation's hearts with his public appearances and witty Twitter feed. Larry t...

A fun and accessible guide to acrylics, featuring step-by-step exercises and advice on technique to help your paintings flourish.  Leading painter,...

The classic board game backgammon has been called 'the perfect combination of skill and luck'. It may look complicated on first glance, but this ab...

Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan presents a concise and approachable guide to colour in painting. Whether you are using watercolour, oils o...

A practical book with simple excercises showing the basics of drawing. Learning to draw is quicker and easier than you might think. This practical ...

A fun and accessible guide to painting flowers in watercolour with step-by-step exercises. World-renowned artist Trevor Waugh reveals the secrets o...

A practical guide to learn painting in oils, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations. Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has di...

Poker has never been more popular. It's played in all sorts of places in serious international tournaments, at the casino, socially with friends a...

A practical guide to learn painting individual people and crowds, with simple exercises and step-by-step demonstrations. Bestselling artist and wri...

Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan delivers a concise and approachable guide to portrait painting, with simple exercises and step-by-step dem...

Capture the wonders of nature in watercolour with this quick guide to wildlife painting, packed with techniques and inspiration.  Bestselling autho...

New to Twitter and feeling a little confused? On first glance, all those half-conversations and unfamiliar symbols may look like gobbledegook. But ...

Bestselling artist and writer Hazel Soan has distilled her art teaching into the things that matter most and can be digested in a short period of t...

Let's Outside is the ideal book to take out and about with children aged 3 to 7. It is packed with original and simple outdoor activities, nature f...

A celebration of outdoor swimming looking at the history, design and social aspect of pools. Few experiences can beat diving into a pool in the fr...

Pitkin presents the fascinating and engaging story of everyday life in and around castles from 1066 to the 1400s. Alongside the Church, the stone ...

When the Romans came to Britain in AD 43, they brought a new style of domestic life, one that better-off Britons soon copied.  This informative gui...

The word 'workhouse' has a grim resonance even today, conjuring up a vision of the darker side of Victorian Britain. Almost every town had at least...

Life in a wartime house

Life in Ancient Britain journeys through the ancient worlds of our ancestors: how they lived, how they shaped the landscape we know today, and how ...

The 1950s began in the shadow of War. In Britain, food was still rationed as the country strove to pay off the huge debts that were the legacy of w...

The 1960s have gone down in history as the swinging sixties; when the permissive society swept the country in a haze of mini-skirts, psychedelic po...

The 1970s are noted as the decade of strikes, the winter of discontent and the three-day week. But is this the full story; what was it really like ...

For centuries, most textile manufacturing relied on people working in their own homes. All that changed in 1761 when Richard Arkwright began constr...

Over 4,000 years of history lie in the seams of British mines, beginning all the way back in the New Stone Age. Large-scale coal mining in Britain ...

Our nation is a treasury of outstanding palaces and fine merchant houses from this rich period in our past. The Tudor period is one that feels fami...

Somewhere around 4000 BC, people in Britain began to give up their old hunter-gatherer way of life, instead raising livestock and planting crops: t...

On Christmas Eve 1801, Cornish mining engineer Richard Trevithick tested the first steam locomotive on the road. Though it was short-lived, explodi...

Jake Winkle's loose, fresh and spontaneous style of painting is very popular.  His paintings are full of light and movement and a key feature of hi...

Bestselling artist and author explains how to use light and shade in watercolour painting to add lifelike detail and create engaging artworks. Mast...

Few cities present as dramatic a profile as Lincoln. From many miles away the cathedral on its ridge makes a thrilling silhouette over the surround...

The city has a magnificent architectural legacy, now rejuvenated and restored to full glory, and also offers and eclectic mix of attractions, inclu...

Liverpool Then and Now takes the reader on a journey through a city once considered the second city of empire. So great was the volume of commerce ...

A compelling collection of anonymous postcards sent during lockdown, revealing hilarious, salacious, relatable and sometimes heartbreaking secret c...

One of the most exhilarating cities in the world, London is steeped in history whilst embracing innovation. Its skyline is a mix of old and new, wi...

One of the most exhilarating cities in the world, London is steeped in history whilst embracing innovation. Its skyline is a mix of old and new, wi...

One of the most exhilarating cities in the world, London is steeped in history whilst embracing innovation. Its skyline is a mix of old and new, wi...

One of the most exhilarating cities in the world, London is steeped in history whilst embracing innovation. Its skyline is a mix of old and new, wi...

One of the most exhilarating cities in the world, London is steeped in history whilst embracing innovation. Its skyline is a mix of old and new, wi...

One of the most exhilarating cities in the world, London is steeped in history whilst embracing innovation. Its skyline is a mix of old and new, wi...

One of the most exhilarating cities in the world, London is steeped in history whilst embracing innovation. Its skyline is a mix of old and new, wi...

One of the most exhilarating cities in the world, London is steeped in history whilst embracing innovation. Its skyline is a mix of old and new, wi...

This exquisite colouring book, a design object in its own right, contains 45 stylish line illustrations of London's most iconic buildings, created ...