Looks at some of the inventions and innovations bought to us by the Vikings.

Light-hearted look at life in the time of the Celts.

Looks at how Vikings prepared themselves for battle.

Dan Jones's epic history tells nothing less than the story of how the world we know today came to be built. It is a thousand-year adventure that moves from the ruins of the once-mighty city of Rome, sacked by barbarians in AD 410, to the first contacts between the old and new worlds in the 16th century. It shows how, from a state of crisis and collapse, the West was rebuilt and came to dominate the entire globe. The book identifies three key themes...

Looks at what life was like in the British Isles during the period encompassing the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Stone Age.

How do the myths that shaped modern Russia, and their reinvention by those in power, rule the country today? Here, Orlando Figes breathes life into the narratives that make sense of the uncertain world we now find ourselves in. 'The Story of Russia' begins in the first millennium, when Russia's lands were initially settled by the Slavs, and ends with Putin in the present day. From Boris and Gleb, the first saints of the Russian Church, to the crowning...

Explores the history and culture of the Vikings with a range of 'would you rather' scenarios.

Looks at what it was like to live in the British Isles at the time of the Vikings.

This is an anthology of women's letters written during times of conflict in Britain from the Wars of the Roses in the 15th century to the end of World War II.;These letter-writers range from such prominent figures as Lady Frances Nelson writing to her husband and Florence Nightingale reporting to her family from the Crimean front, to ordinary, unknown women, most of whose letters have never before been published.

At the end of the Irish War of Independence, Dublin signed an unsatisfactory treaty with London, that amongst other things, required oaths of allegiance to the British Empire. To many this was a price worth paying, but for others it was impossible. Very quickly, in 1922 the country collapsed into a cruel civil war that split organisations like Sinn Fein and the IRA, local communities, and families. It was less devastating than some other European...