Readers can discover all the foul facts about Scotland, including the truth about William Wallace, the disgusting details of sick Scottish torture techniques, and how to terrify a tourist with gory Scottish ghost stories. With a bold, accessible new look and a heap of extra-horrible bits, these bestselling titles are sure to be a huge hit with yet...

Designed to tie in with the national curriculum, the Turning Points in History series examines the events and effects of a major historical watershed. This audiobook looks at how the steam engine revolutionized energy and its historical effect.

"Our Island Story" by H. E. Marshall is an Edwardian history book for younger listeners (6-12) which tells the story of England, concluding with the reign of Queen Victoria.

This audiobook describes the background of how peace came about after the First World War. It explains the treaties drawn up to sustain peace, as well as the challenges and dilemmas facing the statesmen in Paris in 1919.

This audiobook, with Introduction and Epilogue by His Grace, the 11th Duke of Malborough, is an informative account of the history of Blenheim Palace and the Churchill Family.

Drawing upon the vast resources of the Imperial War Museum's Sound Archive, this audiobook presents the first complete oral history of The Falklands War. It is a unique and essential chronicle from all sides and perspectives, told in the participants' own voices.

What was the 'Ancien Regime'? What caused the 'Reign of Terror'? How did the Revolution change France? Find the answers to these questions and delve into the very nature of history with this audiobook.

This history of the Second World War is the definitive work. It is remarkable for its breadth and sweep and for its sense of personal involvement. This edition is Churchill's own abridgement of his original six volume history.

There was once a world of blazing heat and falling meteorites, of enormous rodents and gigantic scorpions, where eventually, out of the violence and the chaos, the first humans emerged. That world is brought to life again in this audiobook. Dare you voyage back through the mists of time to the beginning?

This audiobook looks at the outlandish history of sport and leisure around the world. Discover the story behind the games we play like never before as we examine the amazing peculiarities of international sport and leisure activities past and present. Learn about the wacky and often bloodthirsty games that our ancestors liked such as fierce gladiat...

During the period of this volume, from 1688 to 1815, three revolutions profoundly influenced mankind and led to war between the British and the French: the English Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1775 and the French Revolution of 1789. Beneath these political upheavals other revolutions in science and manufacture were laying the foun...

The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as Tom Keneally reveals in this memoir, luck and the dogged persistence of one of 'Schindler's Jews' were vital in bringing it to the world's attention through his Booker Prize-winning novel, 'Schindler's Ark' and the subse...

A charismatic teacher who inspired a generation of physicists, Robert Oppenheimer, the subject of this brief biography, is remembered today as 'the father of the atom bomb'. It was his creation that brought a devastating end to World War II. The two bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed hundreds of thousands, destroyed the lives of million...

It's 1828 and you're a medical student at the world-famous Edinburgh university. You are keen to start dissecting bodies to learn all about anatomy, but be careful who you buy your body from - some people will do anything to get their hands on one! This audiobook explores the body-snatching craze that gripped 19th century Britain, including the inf...

Young readers will get a real sense of how towns and cities have developed all over the world from medieval towns to the extreme cities in the jungle and polar regions. What is suburban bliss and why are some of our cities dying? Listen to this audiobook from start to finish for a riveting social history or dip in and out for some fascinating and o...

Listeners will learn about the often painful and frequently distasteful educational practices that our ancestors employed and explore some unusual teaching methods used today. Find out about the Neolithic cave school, the English charity boarding school in Dickensian times, where pupils shared their boarding rooms with chickens and turkeys, and the...

Terry Deary and Martin Brown's brilliant books about the nastiest periods in history have now - with the help of some astounding actors and directed by Dirk Maggs - been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas. Featuring new, extra material not found anywhere in the books, these sound spectaculars are just as thrilling and spilling, funny...

More short biographies of people who have changed the world: This audio book focuses on Alexander the Great, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, George Washington, Ludwig van Beethoven, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and Mahatma Gandhi.

Short biographies of ten people whose energy, imagination and courage changed the world: Columbus, Elizabeth I, Shakespeare, Mozart, Nelson, Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Abraham Lincoln and Anne Frank.

A history of opera from its beginnings in the 16th century through to to present day, with examples from Monteverdi to Wagner.

The actor Derek Jacobi guides the listener through the story of the Theatre from Ancient Greece up to present day. This audiobook traces the development of dramatic art through the miracle plays, the great Shakespearean period, Moliere and Racine in France, Goethe in Germany, through the 19th century and the main movements in the 20th century.