In a panoramic survey of the Victorian Age, this work describes the men and women who brought the modern age into being. The capitalist world was challenged by the ideas of such men as Karl Marx, William Morris and George Bernard Shaw - here they are. Here are also the lofty and famous and here too are the poor and the obscure.

Presents the story of Ada Lovelace, the daughter of Lord Byron, who was connected with some of the influential characters of the age including Charles Dickens, Michael Faraday, Charles Darwin and Charles Babbage. Her work with Babbage led to her being credited with the invention of computer programming.

Born in 1910, Diana was the most beautiful and the cleverest of the six Mitford sisters. She was eighteen when she married Bryan Guinness, of the brewing dynasty, by whom she had two sons. After four years, she left him for the fascist leader, Oswald Mosley - a course of action that horrified her family. This title offers her portrait.

Sex, intrigue and adultery in the world of high politics and huge wealth in late eighteenth-century England.

Mildred Lathbury is one of those 'excellent women' who is often taken for granted. She is a godsend, 'capable of dealing with most of the stock situations of life - birth, marriage, death, the successful jumble sales, the garden fete spoilt by bad weather'.

A wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's writings, and the companion volume to 'Untold Stories'. Rejacketed to accompany the paperback of 'Untold Stories' and the film of The History Boys.