To Thomas Carlyle he was 'not worth his weight in cold bacon,' but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin D...

With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the write...

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary c...

To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was 'poor Bertie,' to his wife he was 'my dear little man,' whi...

Hailed by Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, as 'one of England's greatest living historical wr...

This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in--the glittering Rome of...

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffe...

Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look ...

When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone becom...

Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as t...

Africa Explored collects the amazing tales of Europeans in Africa before the wave of colonialism.

The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British gen...