Flying Pianos
£26.00Inside the miraculous birth of British aviation
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A History of Science in 21 Women
£18.99From radiotherapy to computer code, climate change to DNA – meet the female scientists who changed the world.
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The Wise and Their Works
£35.00The Wise and Their Works celebrates the 175th anniversary of the Great Exhibition in 2026.The men who inspired the Great Exhibition of 1851 – Henry Cole, Sir Robert Peel and above all Prince Albert himself – were at the centre of an extraordinary combination of manufacturing, commercial skill and political vision which made Victorian Britain an unparalleled success story.In this celebratory book, A. N. Wilson examines the legacy they left behind: their idealistic beliefs about free trade, decency and parliamentary democracy, and their ultimate vision of the human race at peace with prosperity spreading, while poverty and warfare were consigned to history. While their loftier ambitions may not have come to pass, these enterprising men did leave behind a little known but hugely influential organisation, the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, which still supports industry, science and art in the UK.Skillfully delving into this ri
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Victorian Architecture
£24.99A new, concise history of buildings erected all over Britain and its colonial empire during the long nineteenth century. Thematically arranged, the book covers all major typologies, from civic buildings and religious structures, to correctional facilities, museums, and exhibition spaces, including transport and industrial infrastructures.