His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

This room-by-room guide brims with delightful description and discussion of the Victorians and their domestic environments. Flanders (A Circle of Sisters, which was shortlisted for the Guardian First ...

Social historian Flanders (Inside the Victorian Home: A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England) does a superb job of demonstrating the role that the press and fiction writers played in shaping ...

It was in the Victorian period that school shifted to becoming a more universal experience. Ruth Goodman explores the Ragged school movement, the social mobility that schooling offered and how the ...

Unless you are a Victorian scholar, a mini crash-course on British Victorian history, culture and sociology would be helpful in order to really appreciate the new film "Effie Gray." A quick Wikipedia ...

London (CNN) — The most disadvantaged people in the United Kingdom are no better-off than they were 15 years ago, according to a new report, which finds a “yawning gap between those who can get by and ...

A staggering number of Brits either cannot work for health reasons or aren’t working hard enough compared with their peers elsewhere in Europe and America. The rise of worklessness among youth, ...

Lust is threatening to tear John Addington’s life apart. It haunts his dreams, governs his thoughts: “Lust, not as quickened heartbeat or lurch into dizzy possibility, but as lagging sickness, a ...

Originally published under the title: The Victorian house : domestic life from childbirth to deathbed. London : HarperCollins, 2003. Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in ...