Judy Garland was a little Mozart of song and dance. Though forever remembered as the wistful Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, it was her plaintive quality, her humour, her ability to be dramatic and send herself up that made her a unique artist.

The Pilgrim Fathers contained religious Separatists who had fled England for Holland in 1608 to escape repression in England. Among them was William Brewster and his family from Scrooby Manor, Nottinghamshire.

Historical novel features the invasions of 1066 that change the lives an Earl's mistress, a young sailor, and three men from Edwinstowe, one of them a housecarle (soldier) who recites poetry and falls for a Welsh minstrel girl.

Star of stage, screen, radio & vaudeville, Al Jolson billed himself as' The World's Great Entertainer' and who could argue? Working in blackface he sang songs about his southern 'Mammy' with a passion that endeared him to Broadway audiences.

William Marshal held a code of honour as genuine as those of the Knights of the Round Table. He made himself the hero of the tournaments and served Eleanor of Aquitaine, King Henry 11, Richard 1, Young King Henry- for whom he went on crusade- King John and Henry 111. He negotiated the Magna Carta for King John and re-issed it for Henry 111. He had connexions to the Knights Templar and was laid to rest in the Round Temple in London.

Queen Mother Eleanor pays ransom to release King Richard but Earl John's Nottingham Castle holds out against him; plus features in fashion, ballads of Robin Hood and Tales of King Arthur

A musical play, plus extracts from the Wipers Times, a newspaper produced on the front line by Sherwood Foresters, plus Albert Ball, Fred Karno, Morgan Kingston, Eric Coates and Sherwood Rangers tank regiment

A poet and revolutionary, champion prizefighter and evangelist, a salvationist, two famous authors, a film maker, a cricket legend, a pioneering artist and eight songs.

Bestselling author Charlie Connelly returns with a First World War memoir of his great uncle, Edward Connelly, who was an ordinary boy sent to fight in a war the likes of which the world had never seen.But this is not just his story; it is the story of all the young forgotten soldiers who fought and bravely died for their countryThe Forgotten Soldier tells the story of Private Edward Connelly, aged 19, killed in the First World War a week before the Armistice and immediatel...

Just as the Great Fire of London took place one year after the Great Plague broke out, in the 14th Century, Germany and Latvia were still burying their dead from the Black Death, or bubonic plague, when they were hit by a strange epidemic--often called Dancing Mania, St. John's Dance, or St. Vitus' Dance--that caused thousands of people to literally "dance" themselves to death. Due to the spasmodic jerkings and twitchings of the "dancers," it was thought at the time that the victims were p...

The theme of Volume 6 is life in the city, specifically life in London and Paris. Collected here are five essential Penny Dreadful texts showcasing the sights, sounds and smells, the locations and, most of all, the colorful denizens, from aristocrat to criminal, that populated each metropolis, both of which feature heavily in some of the best penny blood literature.In The Seven Curses of London, chronicler of the times James Greenwood diss...

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more innocent, simple way of life.This is the story of a little girl who loved to dance. Growing up in London in the 1930s, dancing was so much more to Irene than just a hobby. It was her escape and it took her off into another world away from the harsh realities of life. A fairytale world away f...