Time period: 18th century

The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world's first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain's role in the international trade in enslaved A...

The librarian at Ariella and Yosef's school loves History. She even has a collection of historical objects in the library that archaeologists found when the new classrooms were built. When she starts wearing different clothes from usual and coming back to the library covered in mud, Ariella and Y...

A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and unchecked bad behaviour, the Regency period was perhaps the last age of true freedom before the arrival of the stifling world of Victorian morality. At the same time, it was a period of transition that reflected unprecedented social, economic and politica...

In this volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller's Guides - after the Middle Ages, Elizabethan England and Restoration Britain - Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history: the Regency (aka Georgian England). A time of exuberance, thrills, frills and ...

The first in a trilogy of novels featuring Nathan Peake, British naval officer and spy during the war with Revolutionary France. It is 1793, and Peake is entrusted with a vital mission - to wreck the French economy by smuggling millions of French banknotes across the Channel and into the heart of...

By 1700, after a century of relentless expansion, London had overtaken Paris to become the largest - if disputedly the finest - city in Europe. This title details the growth of the city and urban change; the make-up of the Londoner from home and abroad; ways of earning a living from banking to be...

She was a spirited young heiress. He was a handsome baronet with a promising career in government. Their marriage had the makings of a fairytale but ended as one of the most salacious and publicised divorces in history. Hallie Rubenhold tells the story of one of the first examples of media frenzy...

By 1700, after a century of relentless expansion, London had overtaken Paris to become the largest - if disputedly the finest - city in Europe. This book details the growth of the city and urban change; the make-up of the Londoner from home and abroad; ways of earning a living from banking to beg...

Britain and the USA have helped define much of world history, and the relationship between the two is crucial to this history. This book focuses on a key period in their relationship, one that moulded the character of the British Empire and of the USA and thus the way they would relate to one and...

The true story of the forbidden love of Venetian aristocrat Andrea Memmo for Giustiniana Wynne, the brilliant illegitimate daughter of an English baronet. Comedy yields to tragedy in an evocative tale that takes place in 18th-century Venice, Paris and London.

From the early 16th century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny, the 'white Mughals' who wore local dress and adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations. This book uncovers a world unexplored by history, and places at its centre a tale of betrayal.

With the Pleasures of the Imagination, John Brewer examines the birth and development of English 'high culture' in the 18th century. Brewer's previous book was The Sinews of Power. Brewer's classic volume transforms our view of England in the 18th century as comprehensively as Simon Schama's The ...

This volume in the annual survey of Shakespeare studies is devoted to the theme of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century.

One long summer, a heatwave descends. Bloated sea creatures wash up along the parched riverbed, animals grow frenzied, ravens gather on the roofs of those about to die. As the stifling heat grips the village, so does a strange rumour: the Mansfield sisters have been seen transforming into a pack ...

'Izabela the Valiant' is a story of a vulnerable but resilient women caught up in extraordinary events - a story that must be told. In the late 18th century, Europe sat at a crossroads, the formerly rococo world shattered by the French Revolution and then transformed by Napoleon's agenda. Social ...