The President who `freed' the slaves and held the Union together in the face of the slaveholding South's bid to create a separate Confederacy. Or was he a pragmatist whose leadership minimised the destruction of the war?.This concise biography situates Lincoln in his time and place.

An informative and entertaining history of the city through its buildings and the people behind them.

A history of Danebury Hillfort

The story of how England's kings first courted, then persecuted, and finally expelled England's Jewish community during the Middle Ages.

Henry V is the best-known military hero in English history: better known than Marlborough or Wellington, or his grandfather, Edward III. He has participated in television documentaries on Henry V and Richard III as well as contributed to History Today and BBC History Magazine.

Kent folk tales

Explore the architecture of one of Britain's most enduring types of building