Jill Armitage

Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Middle English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for Sir Gawain and

Secret Staines-upon-Thames and Laleham explores the lesser-known history of the town of Staines-upon-Thames and next-door Laleham through a fascinatin

Explore Eyam's fascinating hidden history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

Met time to momo Brussel haal je alles uit je stedentrip! En deze nieuwe editie heeft een volledige corona-update ondergaan. Stap je hotel uit en loop

In de zomer van 1741 braken in New York in korte tijd tien mysterieuze branden uit. Al gauw ging het gerucht dat opstandige slaafgemaakten de stad met

Offers an account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address - to show how American democracy is bound up with the

In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIII’s children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The queen

When an Anglo-Saxon chieftain named Snot settled in the area and built a wall around the town, he named it Snottingham, meaning homestead for his peop

Dit Amerika is een vervolg op Deze waarheden, Jill Lepore’s veelgeprezen geschiedenis van de Verenigde Staten. In een tijd van grote wanhoop over de t

In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise

Ghost enthusiasts and pet lovers can combine their passion in this unique publication which will make a most absorbing read for animal lovers and thos

DERBY’S history dates back over 2,000 years to when the Celtic Brigantine tribe inhabited the area on the banks of the River Derwent. Then the Romans

A fabulous collection of ghostly hauntings in Derbyshire.

A spooky collection of Peak District hauntings

New paperback edition - The fateful Tudor triangle: a reigning queen, an exiled queen, and the countess who was obliged to be her jailer. And Bess of

The Ripley region owes its growth to the area's natural resources of coal, iron, oil and clay. The world-renowned Butterley Company ran a vast enginee