(Paperback)

This book tells the story of the transformation of the Grade-II-listed New Bodleian into the state-of-the-art Weston Library. Detailing this amazing architectural project from demolition in August 2011 to the opening of the visionary Weston Library in March 2015, it offers a fascinating insight into the major refurbishment of a landmark building.

(Paperback)

Accompanied by a range of arresting images, this book is a compilation of some of Lenins most famous sayings, taken from speeches, tracts, letters and recorded conversations. These proclamations offer an insight into the atmosphere of Revolutionary Russia and the mind of one of the twentieth centurys most defining political figures.

(Hardback)

In 1942 the United States War Department distributed a handbook to American Servicemen advising them on the peculiarities of the British, their country, and their ways. By turns hilarious and poignant, many observations remain quaintly relevant today. Reproduced in a style reminiscent of the era, this is a wonderfully evocative war-time memento.

(Paperback)

Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation and vice, and I begin to find already my Morals corrupted. Drawing together fifty quotations from Jane Austens letters and novels with vibrant illustrations which illuminate everyday aspects of life in the Georgian era, this beautifully produced volume is the perfect gift for Janeites everywhere.

(Hardback)

The Latin text of Magna Carta (the 1217 issue of Henry III) is reproduced, together with a modern translation and an introduction which traces the background to the making of the charter and its subsequent revisions through the centuries. It also explains how this text has become an enduring symbol of freedom in Britain and throughout the world.