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An oral history of Kent hop pickers

Perhaps it's a long journey, or you want to get them off their screens? Perhaps it's a group of restless children and you wish you could catch, hold and reward their attention? You can, and, as you magic from thin air a gripping story, that face-to-face engagement does as good as it feels.

A vivid portrait of a world at the end of war, told through 12 months from around the globe

Fully authorised by The Film and Television Charity and by Buckingham Palace, this book will celebrate the iconic Royal Film Performances

Spalding reveals and explores the intimate relationship between the course of Stevie Smith's life and the evolution of her art, into which she assimilated not simply the events and emotions of her private life, but the influences on her imagination of her wide and varied reading.

Afghan wars

The story of Black British theatre at its most radical, entertaining and profound - told through the lives of its great trailblazers

Relaying the events of Desmond Ibbotson's short but eventful but eventful career as well as what happened next, investigating his tragic death on a routine test flight, and how he came to have two graves

Travel with Lady Dorothy Mills around the world, from high society in the Jazz Age to Timbuktu - her globe-trotting story is one of cannibals and cocktails.

A celebratory feast of all things food, Moreish chews the fat with a range of foodie insiders to unpick the codes of consumption.

The story of Joanna - princess, pioneer, captive and queen - and of the wider twelfth-century world that she inhabited.

There's something about Jane... Jane Austen lived only just into her forties, never married, never had children, lived all her life in the south of England and rarely strayed far from the genteel and orthodox social circle into which she was born.

Former intelligence officer Will Britten lifts the lid on his work for BRIXMIS at the height of the Cold War

Brunel made plenty of mistakes, some of them ruinously expensive. But he also designed and built several structures which are still with us to this day. For these we have to thank a man who was famously described as 'in love with the impossible'.

The true story of the girls who were shipped to Australia from Kerry workhouses