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The Children's Book
Olive Wellwood is a famous writer, interviewed with her children gathered at her knee. Read more...
The Evolution of the Modern Workplace
The last twenty-five years have seen the world of work transformed in Britain. Read more...
Mrs Charles Darwin’s Recipe Book
More than a cookbook, the Mrs. Charles Darwin's Recipe Book delineates a lifestyle at the top of English society and intelligentsia at the time. Read more...
Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven Cities
The contribution of the Ancient Greeks to modern western culture is incalculable. Read more...
God’s Philosophers
This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. Read more...
Rebel Land
What is the meaning of love and death in a remote, forgotten, impossibly conflicted part of the world? Read more...
The World and Wikipedia - How we are Editing Reality
Wikipedia has emerged as the reference source that most of us turn to most of the time. Read more...
Arena of Ambition: A History of the Cambridge Union
Stephen Parkinson, an ex-President of the Society, charts the history of the Union from its nineteenth-century origins, focusing particularly on the turbulent Second World War and post-war years - during which the Union building was hit by a German bomb and commandeered by the army, future Cabinet ministers fell out over bitterly contested elections, and controversies raged about the admission of women and the place of such an apparently antiquated club in a modern university. Read more...
The Pattern in the Carpet
This is a beautifully written and deeply personal book on the jigsaw puzzle and the part it plays in the puzzle of its distinguished author's life. Read more...
The Gropes
It is one of the more surprising facts about old England that one can still find families living in the same houses their ancestors built centuries before and on land that has belonged to them since before the Norman Conquest. Read more...
The Young Charles Darwin
What sort of person was the young naturalist who developed an evolutionary idea so logical, so dangerous, that it has dominated biological science for a century and a half? Read more...
Frances Partridge - A Life
Frances Partridge was the last significant writer of the Bloomsbury Group but far from the least. Read more...
Birdscapes
What draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? Read more...
