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Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself. In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen – and later Empress of India – for almost sixty-four years, presiding over twenty prime ministers and a period of unprecedented social and political change.

An authoritative and radical rethinking of the history of Ancient Britain and Ancient Ireland, based on remarkable new archaeological finds. British history is traditionally regarded as having started with the Roman Conquest. But this is to ignore half a million years of prehistory that still exert a profound influence. Here Francis Pryor examines the great ceremonial landscapes of Ancient Britain and Ireland – Stonehenge, Seahenge, Avebury and the Bend of the Boyne – as well as the discarded artefacts of day-to-day life, to create an astonishing portrait of our ancestors.

Ladies and gentlemen, step right up… On 23 March, 1844, General Tom Thumb, at 25 inches tall, entered the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace and bowed to Queen Victoria. On both sides of the Atlantic, this event marked a tipping point in the nineteenth century: the age of the ‘Freak’ was...

A new history of the Renaissance's greatest feat of exploration: Sir Walter Ralegh's search for the legendary city of El Dorado, by New York Times bestselling author David Gibbins. In 1594, English adventurer Sir Walter Ralegh heard the story of a lost city in South America from a Spanish...

From rumors of lost Amazonian cities of gold to the silver running through the mountains of Bolivia, hopes for dazzling wealth fueled the imperial fantasies of the Tudors and Stuarts. Stories of treasure ships and the feats of privateers from Francis Drake to Walter Raleigh have become...

An extraordinary journey that uncovers historical secrets about England's forgotten queen. From Alice Loxton, author of the acclaimed bestseller Eighteen. 'Loxton is the leading historian of her generation' – Dan Jones, bestselling author of The Templars In 1290, England mourned the death of a...

The six wives of Henry VIII have become defined in a popular sense not so much by their lives as by the way these lives ended. But, as Antonia Fraser conclusively proves, they were rich and feisty characters. They may have been victims of Henry's obsession with a male heir, but they displayed...

Brought to you by Penguin. Discover a story 400 years in the making - the definitive biography of the man who dominated England in the first half of the sixteenth century Born into the English Wars of the Roses, educated in the European Renaissance, enthralled by the Age of Exploration and...

In the 19th century, the British and Russian empires were engaged in bitter rivalry for the acquisition of Southern Asian. Although India was the ultimate prize, most of the intrigue and action took place along its northern frontier in Afghanistan, Turkestan, and Tibet. Mapping the region and gaining knowledge of the enemy were crucial to the interests of both sides.

The story of Britain from the earliest settlements in 3000BC to the death of Elizabeth I in 1603. To look back at the past is to understand the present. In this vivid account of over 4,000 years of British history, Simon Schama takes us on an epic journey which encompasses the very beginnings of the nation's identity, when the first settlers landed on Orkney. From the successes and failures of the monarchy to the daily life of a Roman soldier stationed on Hadrian's Wall, Schama gives a vivid, fascinating account of the many different stories and struggles that lie behind the growth of our island nation.

Bill Bryson is an unabashed Anglophile who, through a mistake of history, happened to be born and bred in Iowa. Righting that error, he spent 20 years in England before deciding to repatriate. This was partly to let his wife and children experience life in Bryson's homeland - and partly because...

The Northumbrians have been overlooked by British and global history, but they’ve made astonishing contributions to both. Dan Jackson sets out to recover this lost history, exploring the deep roots of Northumbrian culture - hard work and heavy drinking, sociability and sentimentality, militarism and masculinity - through centuries of border warfare and dangerous industry. He explains what we can learn about Northumbria’s people from its landscape and architecture and revisits the Northumbrian Enlightenment that gave the world the locomotive and the lightbulb.

Helen Lewis argues that feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights. Too many of these pioneers have been whitewashed or forgotten in our modern search for feel-good, inspirational heroines. It’s time to reclaim the history of feminism as a history of difficult women.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. When wealthy banker Alexander Holder stumbles breathlessly into 221B Baker Street, Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson are confronted with a case that threatens national disgrace and destroys a family’s peace. Holder has accepted an invaluable national...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Adventure of the Speckled Band* ranks among Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated and terrifying Sherlock Holmes mysteries, a masterclass in deduction, suspense and creeping horror set in the shadowy Surrey countryside. Early one morning, a...

A state-of-the-nation look at modern Britain through the lens of a lasting emblem of grandeur, and decline ‘Today there is no one alive who remembers what it felt like when Great Britain was the richest country in the world. But there is a way to access that feeling. You just walk along the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. From the memoirs of Dr. John Watson comes *The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor*, another captivating case featuring Sherlock Holmes, London’s preeminent consulting detective. Lord Robert St. Simon, second son of the Duke of Balmoral, arrives at 221B...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Five Orange Pips* stands as one of Arthur Conan Doyle’s bleakest, most haunting Sherlock Holmes mysteries, a chilling tale of ancestral doom, secret societies, and relentless transatlantic vengeance from *The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes*. On a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Red-Headed League* stands among Arthur Conan Doyle’s most clever, celebrated Sherlock Holmes mysteries, a masterwork of misdirection and brilliant deductive reasoning. Dr. Watson recounts the strange case of Jabez Wilson, a portly pawnbroker with...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. *The Adventure of the Engineer’s Thumb* is a tense, fast-paced Sherlock Holmes thriller filled with shadowy criminals, deadly traps and narrow escapes, narrated by Dr. Watson. Shortly after Watson establishes his own medical practice, a distraught...