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What was medicine like in the time of Shakespeare and Oliver Cromwell? How did Charles I cure a headache, or Samuel Pepys get rid of kidney stones? Katherine Knight opens up the …
‘Meet the people connected to Titanic in a very personal way. Through a tremendous display of memorabilia items – some of them very personal – you will feel the Titanic disaster as …
Paul Martin's Grand Tour is the story of the life of the popular Flog It! presenter, from his life as a musician and antiques dealer on the Portobello Road to being the star of the …
Doomed survivor of a family of geniuses, Charlotte Brontë had a life as dramatic as Jane Eyre. Turning her back on her tragic past, she reinvented herself as an acclaimed writer, a …
From Romans at one end to Romanians at the other, journey through time to discover the legacy of Edgware Road. Meet murderers, mayhemmakers, mistresses and Great Train Robbers who …
The story of herring is entwined in the history of commercial fishing. For over two millennia, herring have been commercially caught and its importance to the coastal peoples of …
Britain has become a nation of curryholics - there are more than 8000 curry restaurants in Britain, visited by two million people each week. Each year, GBP2 billion is spent in …
The figure of the gladiator is as compelling to us as it was to the Romans. Why are we drawn to this ancient blood sport? The usual explanation of the savagery lurking beneath our …
An updated and expanded edition examining Ireland's onyl mass witchcraft trial and the effect it had on Islandmagee's residents years after the trial
'Extraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to every man, woman and child' - Lemn SissayIn 1868, British troops charged into the mountain empire of Ethiopia, …