The power and the gloryIn the decades before the First World War, the owners of the nation's stately homes revelled in a golden age of glory and glamour. Nothing lay beyond their reach in a world where privilege and hedonism went hand in hand with duty and honour. This was a time when the ancestral seats of ancient nobility stood side by side with the fabulous palaces of Jewish bankers and Indian princes, when dukes and duchesses mixed with aristocratic society hostesses

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'A subject that could not be more important

A retelling of Greek myths is combined here with a comprehensive account of the world in which the myths developed - their themes

the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941

Between the end of the Renaissance and the start of the Enlightenment

It's estimated that one in almost a hundred people are diagnosed as being on the autistic spectrum but there is far more hope for them today than ever before thanks to groundbreaking new research

Beginning in the 1960s

A dead leper stalks the decks

Singapore to Siberia

A teetotal week in a remote cottage could solve all their problems

Major James Bigglesworth

Mathilda's friends push her towards a series of increasingly unorthodox remedies