Ranging from Mary Queen of Scots to Alexander McQueen, this is a lively and comprehensive guide to 400 tartans, fully illustrated in color and rich in Scottish history and lore. Internationally popular, and worn by everyone from Madonna to the Royal Family, tartan is the very symbol of Scottishness. In this fascinating book, world expert Brian Wilton traces tartan back to its roots, ...

Manufacturer: Aurum Press
Written By: Brian Wilton

Manufacturer: Pimlico
Written By: Alison Weir

The "London Through a Lens" column is one of the most popular in the city's Time Out magazine. Each week, a single photo from the prestigious Getty Images archive is featured, along with a detailed explanatory text. This engaging book collects some of the best of these entries, ranging from beautiful to provocative, curious to amusing. Together, they comprise a unique mosaic of one of ...

Manufacturer: Time Out
Written By: Editors of Time Out

Meticulously detailed paper doll collection spotlights the strong-willed monarch who led sixteenth-century England to a period of great strength and enormous prosperity. The Queen's seven magnificent gowns of silk, satin, and brocade are accented with pleated ruffs, pearls, and polished gemstones. Two figures of her admirers--Sir Walter Raleigh and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex--are also ...

Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Written By: Tom Tierney

A history of Hungary from 1000 to the present day by the former British Ambassador to Hungary.

Manufacturer: Timewell Press
Written By: Bryan Cartledge

Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michelangelo, and the Medici, Florence is unlike any other city in its extraordinary mingling of great art and literature, natural splendor, and remarkable history. Intimate and grand, learned and engaging, Michael Levey's Florence renders the city in all of its madness and magnificence.

Manufacturer: Harvard University Press
Written By: Michael Levey

How could Germans, inhabitants of the most scientifically advanced nation in the world in the early 20th century, have espoused the inherently unscientific racist doctrines put forward by the Nazi leadership? Eric Ehrenreich traces the widespread acceptance of Nazi policies requiring German individuals to prove their Aryan ancestry to the popularity of ideas about eugenics and racial science that ...

Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
Written By: Eric Ehrenreich

This book is a captivating journey around London to discover the unknown tales of the capital’s history. Travelling through the villages and districts that make up the world’s most dynamic metropolis it unearths the hidden gems of legends, firsts, inventions, adventures and birthplaces that shape the city’s compelling, and at times, turbulent past.

Manufacturer: Ebury Press
Written By: Christopher Winn

Written in 1961 and now back in print, this classic and fascinating true crime story stars none other than Marie Antoinette. Four years before the French Revolution, some priceless diamonds were purchased in elaborate secrecy from a court jeweler. The jewels, not yet paid for, were delivered into the hands of the first Prelate of the Church of France. He, in turn, gave it to a countess who ...

Manufacturer: Phoenix Press
Written By: Frances Mossiker

Providing an invaluable guide to the surnames of Scotland, each entry in this book covers the history, areas of family lands, castles, and tartans (ancient and modern) associated with the powerful clans of the Highlands, and the great families of the Lowlands.

Manufacturer: Mainstream Publishing
Written By: Roddy Martine