The Book of the British Library, Hardback - Michael Leapman

As well as holding some of the world's most prized cultural treasures, the British Library is the repository of the nation's collective memory. In ...

Publisher: Gingko LibraryAuthor(s): Barbara BrendNumber of pages: 224Collection: Gingko Library Art SeriesPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 251 x 2...

Written and selected by the curatorial team, the dazzling, large-format Gold Exhibition Highlights Book showcases the British Library's exceptional...

A new exploration of the secular manuscripts and medieval medical texts associated with the York Guild and its members.Publisher: York Medieval Pre...

Twelve sheets of gift wrap, featuring maps from the British Library, the UK's national libraryTwelve sheets of 19.5 x 27.5 inch wrapping paper are ...

This book will take you to whisky landmarks all over the world, including the record-breaking Karuizawa distillery in Japan and Kavalan, the distil...

With a foreword by Kathleen Jamie. The Heart of the Forest explores four enduring ways in which we connect to the woods - through Refuge, Sacrednes...

Tied into the KS1 science curriculum, this book takes a lively, attractive look at British birds. Using lots of familiar examples, along with some ...

This new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts...

Sejal Sukhadwala probes the complex intersection of tradition and colonialism through the fascinating history of curry, from its association with A...

Breaking the News asks timely questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a g...

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling...

From John Polidori's iconic short story 'The Vampyre' and tales of parasitic female companions to experimental and freshly thrilling takes by Rober...

This new collection of stories pairs strange creatures with frightening encounters to revive the fearsome past of the fairy folk.Publisher: British...

This beautifully presented and fully illustrated new collection presents many English-language favourites, some old and some newly made, to try twi...

Reducere. Aleister Crowley s black magic masterpiece 'The Book of the Law' is the central sacred text of Thelema, written or channeled by Crowley in 1904, wh...

This is an atlas with a difference. This atlas can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getti...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Mr Michael BillingtonNumber of pages: 344Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 241 x 36Cover type:...

The UK business banking sector is unique in the EU in probiding most SME funding via bank overdrafts and credit cards rather than long-term loan fi...

In June 1940, Hitler ordered his generals to organize the invasion of Britain under a plan codenamed Operation Sealion, drawing up a complex set of...

The Illustrated Police News provided an affordable illustrated roundup of `all the startling events of the week' from its first issue published on ...

In this collection of his most atmospheric and uneasy tales, Mike Ashley provides the facts of Blackwood's life which inspired each story - includi...

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conf...

In this timely and fully international book, David Welch has selected fifty images to highlight the continuities and dis-continuities of mass-commu...

This new edition of the most influential book about pirates ever written presents twenty action-packed biographies of the likes of Blackbeard and C...

DescriptionUsing the Book of Job as his basis, Dr. Joseph Murphy shows that within you is the power to solve all of your problems, however hopeless...

One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and...

With a foreword by Oti Mabuse. Choreographer Robert Hylton navigates an extraordinary array of photographs, periodicals and ephemera from the Briti...

Captain Charles Johnson's colourful accounts of the most roguish and infamous highwaymen in history comes to life in this new publication featuring...

Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new collection of Captain Charles Johnson's tales of rogues includes the ver...

Publisher: British Museum PressAuthor(s): Timothy ClarkIllustration(s): 150 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2021Dim...

A spectacular, puzzle-fuelled, myth-busting journey through the hidden history of Britain in 500 questions.Publisher: British Library PublishingAut...

Reducere. Used for more than seven hundred years as a teaching story, The Book of the Book is one of the most compelling and astonishing texts ever to emerge...