Discover the pivotal moments in the history of North East England, from Celtic struggles to the rise of Christianity in ...

At this point, when Harald had made real headway, he was invited to Christmas at Tofte farm. At the feast on Christmas Eve, a ...

Back-to-backs were once the commonest form of housing in England, home to the majority of working people in Victorian cities, but they have now almost entirely vanished from our urban townscape. The ...

Born out of their love for the night economy, music scene and pub life in Bristol, documentary photographer Colin Moody and broadcast journalist Jasmine Fetibuah-Foley have teamed up to create a ...

This copiously illustrated book takes the lid off the real story of prison food. Including the full text of an original prison cookery manual compiled at Parkhurst Prison in 1902, it examines the ...

‘No one can know all she had to go through. The merciful judgement of all connected with that terrible life lies with God; And we may all be thankful that it does.’ Doomed survivor of a family of ...

Only six men can lay claim to wearing the famous Savile Row tuxedo of James Bond; more people have stepped on the moon. Yet, hundreds more came within an inch of winning the coveted 007 role – the ...

Joan Rhodes would leave audiences speechless as she bent steel bars with her teeth, ripped large phone books into quarters, and lifted two men at a time. But what she did was real. Joan had a ...

This nostalgic, humorous and richly illustrated volume celebrates the Somerset of years gone by. Syd Durston was seven when the Second World War broke out. As well as causing panic in Britain’s cities ...

MARNIE PALMER now lives near Bath with her new partner, John, and their two Jack Russell terriers. Her former five-star jetset lifestyle has been replaced by a retirement of gardening and fly-fishing.

In AD 400 Roman rule in Britain was collapsing as the thinly stretched empire was besieged on all sides. In “The Last Legionary“, Paul Elliot explores all aspects of Late Roman military life, from ...

‘One notices how people are gripped by the past … remembering the past … feeding on the past.’ ‘Brian Walker challenges embedded myths and perceptions, peels away the real from the imagined, presents ...