Time period: 19th century

Simon Forty celebrates the major inventions and buildings of the period 1700-1860: a period when science and technology began to establish its role in modern life.

Born a free man in New York State in 1808, Solomon Northup was kidnapped in Washington, D.C., in 1841. He spent the next 12 years as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation, during this time he was frequently abused and often afraid for his life.

A kaleidoscopic picture of British society in the year of the Battle of Waterloo, evoking the sights, sounds and smells of a defining moment in modern British history.

Christmas, 1899. It's an exciting time to be young, and 14-year-old Flora is determined to take advantage of everything the next century has to offer. But how will she persuade her stuffy, strait-laced father about the possibilities of the new era?

The murder of Dr Harvey Burdell in his lower Manhattan home made front-page news across the United States in 1857. 'Who killed Dr Burdell?' was a question that gripped the nation. '31 Bond Street', a debut novel, interweaves fiction with actual events in a clever historical narrative that blends ...

An Irish landlord flees from a society marriage, to return in disguise to his family estate in Ireland. Here he sets out to find a solution to his father's debts and the mismanagement of the estate.

Monk and his wife Hester are doing their best to care for Scuff - a homeless boy recovering from a terrifying ordeal at the hands of Jericho Phillips, the runner of a child prostitution ring. Although Scuff's abductor is dead, there's no suggestion that the ring has been broken.