The Untold Stories of Britain's BodyguardsFollow the firsthand recollections of men and women who guard the United Kingdom's most famous figures

A career of bravery and discretion revealed. As one…

Although children’s plays of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are rarely anthologized or even mentioned in reference books or histories of theatre, theatre historian and playwright Jonathan Levy found an…

Until the nineteenth century, risk was a specialized term: it was the commodity exchanged in a marine insurance contract. Freaks of Fortune tells how the modern concept of risk emerged…

A gripping account of life inside Britain’s highest security hospital, this is the full story of Broadmoor - past, present and future - as told by the staff and patients…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the "public…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Soon after its founding in 2011, Noir Nation: International Crime Fiction became the globally recognized home of international crime fiction. Its content is often dark, sometimes creepy, and sometimes humorous…

This collection aims to serve as a catalyst for new interdisciplinary developments in language, logic and computation and to introduce new ideas from the expanded European academic community.