Night Trains
Introduction The Blue Train The Nordland Railway Paris-Venice The ‘Orient Express’ The Sud Express The Berlin Night Express
Profile Books
Women & Power
Preface The Public Voice of Women Women in Power Afterword A Note on the Cover
The Railways: Nation, Network and People
Introduction In the Carriage The Time of the Railways Seating, Lighting, Heating, Eating The Classes in Motion Journeying Together Risks and Anxieties Crimes and Misdemeanours The Improved British Railway Train And so to Bed Down the Line The Permanent Way Signals and Wires Railways and the Land I Railways and the Land II Goods and …
Shakespeare (Ideas in Profile)
A Chronology of Shakespeare’s Works Introduction: The Shakespeare Currency What was his life like? How did he write? What did he write? The power of Shakespeare Encountering Shakespeare Why Shakespeare?
The Story of English in 100 Words
A short history of English words[rtoc] Roe – the first word (C5) Lea – naming places (C8) And – an early abbreviation (C8) Loaf – an unexpected origin (C9) Out – changing grammar (C9) Street – a Latin loan (C9) Mead – a window into history (C9) Merry – a dialect survivor (C9) Riddle – …
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way It Does
Forword: For the Love of Maps Dava Sobel Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself [rtoc] What Great Minds Knew: How the ancient Greeks – Erastothenes and Ptolomy – first worked out the size and shape of the world and our place upon it The Men Who Sold the World: The day Britain’s greatest cartographic treasure …