Time period: 20th century

The Twentieth Century Society protects outstanding architecture and design dating from 1914 onwards, so in 2014 it is marking 100 years of buildings under its protection. This book showcases photographs of 100 buildings - one for each year from 1914 - which represent the range and quality of work...

Peter Daly was nineteen when he left Donegal, bound for America. Nine years later, in 1961, following a stint with the US Army, he joined the New York Police Department. His beat was the Lower East Side of Manhattan during one of the worst crime-waves in the city and, determined to make his mark,...

A visual history of horse racing in Britain over the past 100 years. Here is a chance to see the people and horses and to witness the great moments of the past.

In his widely anticipated memoir, Ai Weiwei - one of the world's most famous artists and activists - tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, Ai Qing, the nation's most celebrated poet.

Offering a history of modern Britain since the late 1970s, author Andrew Hindmoor takes one particular day as a starting point, then goes on to describe its relevance and significance to modern British history.

Malouf begins by describing in evocative detail the house in Brisbane where he was born and grew up, moving from room to room, always relating the smallest items in it to the life he remembers and his widening perception of the world at large.

This heavily illustrated book, featuring the world's greatest modern artists, provides an introduction for young readers to modern art. Each artist's entry includes a concise biography, reproductions of major works, and texts that speak directly to young readers.

From Neil Armstrong's first steps on the moon to the fall of the Berlin Wall; portraits of Albert Einstein, Princess Diana & the Beatles - these & other history-making photographs are presented, offering helpful background information on the events & people they portray, & perspectives on the cir...

As he settles into his Paris office, American academic Trevor Stratton discovers a box full of century-old artefacts. The pictures, letters and objects in the box relate to Louise Brunet, a Frenchwoman who lived through both World Wars. But, as he becomes enamoured with the feisty lady in his min...

Andrew Morton tells the story of the feckless Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor, and his wife Wallis Simpson, whose affair with Joachim von Ribbentrop embroiled the duke in a German plot to use him as a puppet king during their takeover of the British Empire. Although we know that the war ended with H...

This is an informative series that provides a photographic history of the last century. Images have been carefully chosen to reflect the changes or mood of the period and are accompanied by detailed captions. This particular title focuses on 1900-1919 and includes World War One.

Most retrospective accounts of the world in 1913 reduce it to either its most frivolous features - last bright summers in grand aristocratic residences - or to its most destructive ones: the rivalries of great European powers, rumbling social unrest in Russia and the angst of Viennese coffee hous...

The stuffy conventions of the 19th century are receding into the past, and 1913 heralds a new age of unlimited possibility. Kafka falls in love; Louis Armstrong learns to play the trumpet; a young seamstress called Coco Chanel opens her first boutique; and new drugs like cocaine usher in an age o...

A witty yet moving narrative worked up from sketched documentary traces and biographical fragments, '1913' is an intimate cultural portrait of a world that is about to change forever.

The mud-filled, blood-soaked trenches of the Low Countries and North-Eastern Europe were essential battlegrounds during the First World War, but the war reached many other corners of the globe, and events elsewhere significantly affected its course. Covering the twelve months of 1916, eminent his...

On the August Bank Holiday 1919, the government dispatched warships to Liverpool in an overwhelming show of force. Thousands of troops, backed by tanks, had been trying without success to suppress disorder on the streets. Earlier that year in London, 1000 soldiers had marched on Downing Street, b...

The year by year format of this series allows the progression of fashion of each decade to be shown in detail, from day wear and evening wear to underwear and negligees. Each development in fashion design is charted in this collection.

The year-by-year format of this series allows the progression of each decade's fashion to be shown in detail, from day wear and evening wear to underwear and negligees.

In '1947', Elisabeth Åsbrink chronicles the creation of the modern world, as the forces that will go on to govern all our lives during the next 70 years first make themselves known.

Morgan Llywelyn tells the story of a charming young woman, Ursula Halloran, who comes of age in the 1920s and experiences the passions and pains of the times. She falls in love, bears a child out of wedlock, and in the war years finds fulfilment running her family farm in neutral Ireland.