A revealing - amusing and sad - biography of a unique family

The bestselling social history of Victorian domestic life, told through the letters, diaries, journals and novels of 19th-century men and women.

The story of Raymond Briggs's parents' marriage, from their first, chance encounter to their deaths. Told in Briggs's familiar strip-cartoon format, with nothing embroidered or altered, the book is also a social history of a kind, embracing such events as World War II and the advent of television.

On the night of 10 February 1567, an explosion devastated the Edinburgh residence of Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots. Those arriving at the scene of devastation found, in the garden, the naked corpses of Darnley and his valet. Neither had died in the explosion, but both bodies bore marks of strangulation.

William Shakespeare, Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Hobbes were three great Englishmen. This work includes the biographies of these and other great Englishmen.

Subversive, eccentric and flamboyant, the artistic community in the first half of the twentieth century was engaged in a grand experiment. The Bohemians ate garlic and didn't always wash; they painted and danced and didn't care what people thought. This book examines the way the Bohemians refashioned the way we live our lives.