Illustrated with several photographs, plans and drawings, this book covers the story of the villa...

At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th November 1919 the entire British Empire came to a ha...

The Daleks are one of the most iconic and fearsome creations in television history.

After the calamity of the Great War, there was a desire in Britain for escapist fun - the lights ...

'Turner's seductive blend of political analysis, social reportage and cultural immersion puts him...

The Eighties may seem to many of us like yesterday, but in many ways the Britain of thirty years ...

The 1970s were the most colourful and controversial decade in the history of modern Britain; they...

'Superb' NICK COHEN, author of What's Left?'Tremendously entertaining' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday ...

From the emergence of Bill Haley and his Comets to the meteoric rise of the Beatles and the Rolli...

The Cadogan Estate in Chelsea is one of the few remaining ancient family estates in London, cover...

An authoritative and entertaining history of the Edwardian age, told through its politics and pop...

Big Biba was the final flowering of the near-mythical Biba retail brand. A shop like no other, al...