Charles Darwin 
Correspondence of Charles Darwin: Volume 26, 1878 [PDF ebook] 

Even after fifty years, and in spite of the reams of documents now available, it remains difficult-especially in France-to form an objective view of what things were like in the period between the wa …

During the course of the First World War, staff of the Great Western Railway”s Audit Office sent letters and photographs back to their employer in Paddington, which were in turn collated into monthl …

”A compelling, absorbing account of a most vivid period in our cultural history, both high-minded and full of high gossip … a rare treat” Melvyn Bragg The first volume of David Plante”s extraord …

This hitherto unpublished first-hand witness account, written in 1968-9, tells the story of a privileged Polish woman whose life was torn apart by the outbreak of the Second World War and Soviet occu …

This book is a truthful, honest and fascinating account of being quarantined on the cruise ship Diamond Princess. It was the first cruise ship to be hit by Covid-19.This was the first major event of …

First published in 1995. Here, republished for the first time, is the first edition text of Jane Austen”s much loved classic masterpieces. A rare and inaccessible resource for most scholars, the fir …

These essays are gleaned from articles published in Wichita Falls Medicine, the Wichita Falls Times Record News, Private Practice, and one from the unlikely pages of the Archives of Internal Medicine …

Many chaplains were not permitted to go near the Front in the First World War – others insisted on doing so, like Kenneth Best in the Gallipoli Campaign. Best had no military training before the war …

On October 7, Israeli territory around the Erez border of Gaza Strip was invaded in a surprise attack by Hamas’s Al Qassam Brigades. In response to this, the people of Gaza have been subjected to nea …

“Dear Millie, I am writing you this letter in the hope that life has afforded you the opportunity to grow old enough to read it…” So starts the most extraordinary diary about a seven-year-old girl an …