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When seventeen-year-old Tessa Brody comes into possession of an ancient unicorn tapestry, she is plummeted into sixteenth-century England, where her life is intertwined with that of a handsome nobleman who is desperately trying to escape a terrible fate.

"Discusses Victorian England including the transformation of a society, the Queen and her role; England at the beginning of Victoria's reign; the impact of industrialization and population growth on country and city; poverty, protests, and politicians; the rise of the middle class; political, social, and educational reforms; the importance of science, and England at the end of the era.

The novel reprises a true story - the strange, eventful, and tragic voyage of His Majesty's Ship Bounty in 1788-1789, which culminated in Fletcher Christian's mutiny against Captain Bligh.

Brind, the huntsman of Dowe Manor, is tossed out of the manor--along with his mastiff Glaive, the foster child Aurelie, and her puppy Gabion--after the landlord's wife dies of the Plague, and together the small group goes in search of safety in a land filled with the Black Death.

Provides an overview of the era in which Jane Austen lived, including descriptions of the fashions, foreign affairs, social rank, transportation, candle etiquette, sanitation practices, and other related topics and explaining how they were reflected in Austen's novels.

A biography of the nineteenth-century queen who ruled Britain longer than any other monarch.

Ten-year-old Frederick, who is surreptitiously watched over by a household elf, is plucked from a London orphanage to be a servant to a wealthy wizard, and eventually his uncanny abilities lead him to become the wizard's apprentice.

In the court of Queen Elizabeth I in 1582, Eleanor Hutton, an alchemist's daughter, and William Lacey, the financially ruined Earl of Dorset, fall in love just as Will is supposed to be courting a rich and socially acceptable heiress.

This book accompanies the exhibition at the Churchill War Rooms and includes many previously unpublished images of artefacts displayed there.

A young disabled girl and her brother are evacuated from London to the English countryside during World War II, where they find life to be much sweeter away from their abusive mother.

Life in the time of William Shakespeare was a period of great advancement in literature but it was also a time when there was a tremendous gap in the standard of living between the rich and poor.