The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren is a pathbreaking work of scholarship that is also a splendid and enduring work of literature.

Mathew Rice's detailed architectural watercolours illuminate a heartfelt, occasionally critical, and often amusing history of Stoke on Trent and the pottery industry.

The history of Pompeii from its origins to its tragic destruction in AD 79, and the conservation and renovation work going on today.

Taking us from pregnancy through infancy, childhood and adolescence to adult life and death, this fascinating anthology of extracts from letters and diaries shows us some of the ways mothers and fathers have thought about and written to their children over the past eight hundred years

Love's Work is at once a memoir and a book of philosophy.

Juliet Heslewood, art historian and author of Mother: Portraits by 40 Great Artists, brings together a collection of portraits of artists' lovers, through history to the present day.