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Kathryn Hughes
Catland : Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern WorldSome called it a craze. To others it was a cult...Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era. ‘He invented a whole cat world’... -
Leslie Hills
10 Scotland Street10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh ...10 Scotland Street – the story of an Edinburgh home and its cast of booksellers, silk merchants, sailors, preachers, politicians, cholera and coincidence and its widespread connections over two cen... -
William Dalrymple
The Golden RoadIndia is the forgotten heart of the ancient wor...India is the forgotten heart of the ancient world. For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating around it a vast empire of ideas. Indian art, re... -
Tessa Boase, Etta Lemon
The woman who saved the birdsRead the fascinating story of one of the greate...Read the fascinating story of one of the greatest unsung figures of the nature conservation movement, founder of the RSPB and icon of early animal rights activism, Etta Lemon. A heroine for our tim... -
Alan Cumming & Forbes Masson
Victory & Barry’s Kelvinside Compendium‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story i...‘Hold on to your chapeaux, because this story is a beezer! It’s a stoatir, so it is!’ Victor and Barry are the epitome of the expression ‘big in the 80s’. Annoyingly, they were also a little big in... -
Martin Sixsmith
The War of NervesMore than any other conflict, the Cold War was ...More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures - not only in o... -
Martin Sixsmith
Putin and the return of historyAn original history of Russia's thousand-year p...An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War. Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has reshaped ... -
Eleanor Barnett
LeftoversA topical and richly entertaining history of fo...A topical and richly entertaining history of food preservation and food waste in Britain from the sixteenth-century kitchen to the present day. In Leftovers, Eleanor Barnett explores the many ingen... -
Wendy Moore
Jack and EveVera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a j...Vera Holme, known as Jack, left a career as a jobbing actress to become Emmeline Pankhurst's chauffeur and mechanic. Evelina Haverfield was a classic beauty, the daughter of a Scottish baron and fo... -
Violet Moller
Inside The Stargazer’s PalaceEnter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century...Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories... In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning... -
Erika Howsare
Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with our Wild NeighboursA stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a ...A stag leaps on an ancient brooch. A doe and a fawn step across a field at first light. A pair of antlers is silhouetted by the side of a busy road. From the earliest cave paintings to the present ... -
James Crawford
Wild History : Journeys into Lost ScotlandFrom the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from t...From the presenter of BBC One's Scotland from the SkyYou scramble up over the dunes of an isolated beach. You climb to the summit of a lonely hill. You pick your way through the eerie hush of a for...
