The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Every evening, once the dinner dishes had been cleared away, Hazel Hill would sit at the kitchen table prodding numbers into her father’s calculating machine. It should never have left his office at the Air Ministry but Fred had a mountain of data to process and his...
Captain Luke Collingwood was used to grim voyages across the Atlantic, but this one had been worse than most. Dysentery, diarrhoea and smallpox had already claimed the lives of seven of the crew aboard the slave ship Zong. The slave cargo had suffered a far higher...
Hannibal, by Theodore Ayrault Dodge. In this masterful two-volume study of the Romano-Carthaginian art of war.
Charles Dickens: As I Knew Him, by George Dolby. An account of Dickens by his sometime manager which is intimate and moving.
The Best of Mrs. Beeton's Cakes and Baking, by Isabella Mary Beeton. For lovers of the Great British Bake Off.
The Life and Times of Rodrigo Borgia: Pope Alexander VI, by Arnold H Mathew. An account of the Borgia who became Pope.
John of Gaunt, by Sydney Armitage-Smith. A classic biography of the medieval prince, younger brother of the Black Prince.
Disenchantment, by C E Montague. a philosophical account of one man’s disenchantment with World War One, first published 1922.
The Armies March, by John Cudahy. A personal account of the early days of Nazi Germany’s sweeping invasion and conquering of Europe.
Raphael: A portrait of the Artist, by Henry Strachey. A classic study of Raphael, essential reading for those interested in Renaissance art.
