An evocative collection of fourteen tales exploring Gaelic mythology, magic and wonder. First published in 1910 at the height of the Celtic Revival movement, this beautiful collection features fourteen tales based on Celtic legend. The stories encom...

Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book shows the social, cultural and historical importance of plants and their role in both formal and folk medicine. Herbs have been used for centuries to cure all manner of ailments. They were especially imp...

A groundbreaking study of the uses of paper and its recycling in eighteenth-century England. Paper was a precious commodity in the eighteenth century: every sheet was made by hand. There was therefore a significant market in recycling substandard pa...

True accounts of groundbreaking women anthropologists defying gender norms in the early 20th century. The extraordinary women featured in "Intrepid Women" defied early twentieth-century conventions to carry out groundbreaking field research in dista...

Clare Leighton was one of the most prolific and highly regarded wood engravers of her time, leaving behind a body of work that reflected her rural life in Britain and North America. During the 1930s, as the world around her became increasingly techno...

English spas have a long and steamy history, from the thermal baths of Aquae Sulis in Bath to the stews of Southwark, the elegant pump rooms of Cheltenham and Buxton to the Victorian mania for hydrotherapy and Turkish hammams. "The Secret History of...

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, f...