In the spring of 1925, Albert Einstein embarked on an extensive lecture tour of Argentina before continuing on to Uruguay and Brazil.  In his travel diary, the…

Marie Curie (1867-1934) was one of the most important woman scientists in history, and she was one of the most influential scientists of the 20th century. Curi…

A brilliant and compelling account of the apprentice years of Elizabeth I. An abused child, yet confident of her destiny to reign, a woman in a man’s world, p…

From her secret hiding place in wartime Amsterdam, the Jewish teenager Anne Frank wrote heart-wrenchingly about the terrors of a captivity that would ultimatel…

In the shadow of Auschwitz, a flamboyant German industrialist grew into a living legend to the Jews of Cracow, Poland. He was a womaniser, a heavy drinker and …

The Condition of the Working Class in England is the best known work of Engels, and still in many ways the best study of the working class in Victorian Englan…

A No. 1 international bestseller, The Beauty Queen of Jerusalem is a dazzling novel of mothers and daughters, stories told and untold, and the ties that bind …

Britain’s war in the shadows of male spies and subterfuge in the heart of occupied France is a story well known, but what of the women who also risked their li…