Created for Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, the book is "perhaps the most significant artifact of Tudor intellectual history still in private hands," the seller says ...

Fortunes are sought in cities, but meaning is found in the country. Shakespeare made it in London, but in his plays the country is where we learn the truth about who we are. Britain has minimal space ...

Reflecting worries that the French might invade, the first OS maps cover the mouth of the river Thames. This is the naval route to London and a highly vulnerable part of the country. The sheets that ...