Overview :The Voyage of St Brendan, first written down over a thousand years ago, recounts the strange adventures of a sixth-century abbot and his cre... Read More
Overview :There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because tort... Read More
Overview :Sticking closely to the account written by the Venerable Bede, Simon Webb's biography of Aidan, much-loved Celtic saint and missionary to th... Read More
Overview :George Chapman, also known as Severin Klosowski, was a London poisoner who was hanged in 1903. During his trial, a number of people began to... Read More
Overview :Quakers have been writing poetry about their extraordinary faith and way of life since the beginning of the Society of Friends, in the middl... Read More
Overview :A highly accessible biography of Elias Hicks, a nineteenth-century Quaker from Long Island who campaigned against slavery and was at the cen... Read More
Overview :The father of Marxism spent roughly half his life in the English capital. Simon Webb's new book takes a fresh look at where and how he lived... Read More
Overview :The History of King Richard III by Thomas More, the celebrated 'man for all seasons', gives us King Richard red in tooth and claw; every inc... Read More
Overview :The History of King Richard III by Thomas More, the celebrated 'man for all seasons', gives us King Richard red in tooth and claw; every inc... Read More
Overview :'It was revealed to Eadmar, a devout monk, that Durham was to be Cuthbert's final resting-place.' Robert Hegge's 1624 book tells the story o... Read More
Overview :Aesthete, decadent poet, misogynist and violent drunk, Ernest Dowson has been long-listed as a Jack the Ripper suspect for nearly twenty yea... Read More
Overview :What was it like being a teenager in a world without computers, smartphones, DVD players, games consoles, or the Internet? Imagine a time wh... Read More
Overview :Sometimes irascible and intolerant, John Cosin suffered years of poverty and exile before he became bishop of Durham in 1660. Simon Webb's n... Read More
Overview :Judicial hanging is regarded by many as being the quintessential British execution. However, many other methods of capital punishment have b... Read More
Overview :A century before Britain became involved in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, whole villages and towns in England, Ireland, Italy, Spain and o... Read More