The body in performance. The performing body. The body of the audience. How do these three, overlapping bodies determine how...

The Tudors were an unforgettable dynasty who wielded absolute power during a remarkably. turbulent time in English history. Each ruler's...

"A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and...

Following on from the enormous success of his bestseller, The Secret Life of Bletchley Park, renowned author Sinclair McKay uncovers...

After centuries of neglect there is renewed interest in the life and works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca (or Seneca the...

1215 – the penultimate year of the reign of a king with the worst reputation of any in our history...

Britain's first Prime Minister, Robert Walpole, smuggled wine up the Thames with the help of the Navy. Tony Blair confessed...

A cultural and military history of the sniper since 1643, when the first shot was fired by a sniper during...

The book tells the fascinating, compelling and tragic tale of Napoleon Bonaparte from his defeat at Waterloo, through the period...

In "The Lost Continent," BBC Europe Editor Gavin Hewitt tells the story of a flawed dream, a noble vision that...

BRITISH & IRISH HISTORY: C 500 TO C 1000. When people think of Richard the Lionheart they recall the scene...

Science makes the modern world go round, driving the economy, shaping politics, and influencing the food we eat, the films...

There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of...

Taking us from the beginning of our story to the present day, A Cold Spell examines how ice has...

From the author of the critically acclaimed The Phantom Atlas and The Madman's Library (Sunday Times Literature Book of the...

This is the first English language account of the formative years between Napoleon's birth in 1796 and when he first...