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I look at the Ryeland ewes, white and fat with fecundity. Replete with contentment.

Contentment is a transmissible condition....

The Salpetriere asylum, 1885. All of Paris is in thrall to Doctor Charcot and his displays of hypnotism on women who have been...

Brixton 1981. Sixteen year-old Michael is already on the wrong side of the law. In in his community, where job opportunities are...

1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the...

"I adore the fox for its magnificence; I hate the fox for killing my chickens.
To love and loathe the fox is a British...

For Rich, life is golden.
He fizzes with happiness and love.
But Rich has an incurable brain tumour.

When Rich dies, he...

What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object....

'The oak is the wooden tie between heaven and earth. It is the lynch pin of the British landscape.'

The oak is our most...

"How to describe the ecstatic song of larks? How the writers and poets have tried..."

Skylarks are the heralds of our...

From the Paleozoic volcanoes that stained its soil, to the Saxons who occupied it, to the Tudors who traded its wool, to the Land...

When several children from the same village start succumbing to a mysterious illness, the quest to discover the cause has...

'Dusk is filling the valley. It is the time of the gloaming, the owl-light.
Out in the wood, the resident tawny has started...

'To see a hare sit still as stone, to watch a hare boxing on a frosty March morning, to witness a hare bolt . . . these are great...

'What is wrong with you?'

Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some...

Christopher Somerville, author of the acclaimed The January Man, pictured cathedrals as great unmoving bastions of tradition. But...

Following the 6th Light Dragoons' successful campaign in the state of Coorg and the deposition of its deranged Rajah,...

From renowned theoretical physicist, broadcaster and author Jim Al-Khalili, comes this thrilling debut novel drawing on...

Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the third and final chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure...

Bridging the gap between 'Game of Thrones' and Bernard Cornwell comes the second chapter in James Wilde's epic adventure of...

January 1830, and one of the hardest winters in memory...

The prime minister, the Iron Duke, is resisting growing calls for...

A century has always had a special resonance, in all walks of life, and none more so than in cricket. Scoring one hundred runs is...

An extraordinary discovery.

When his old friend, Angela, invites him out to her archaeological dig in the Iraqi desert, Chris...

Blades are sharpened, battle lines drawn. Now is the time for heroes...

1081: The bloody battle for the crown of the Holy...

It is on the field of battle that heroes are made...and legends born

1073: Under the merciless sun of the East, a dark force...

From the presenter of the brilliant BBC podcast 'Parentland', and drawing on the most up-to-date scientific research, here are...

An Englishwoman is found dead in a house near Rome.

Her distraught husband enlists the help of his closest friend, Chris...

"On the day after humans disappear, nature takes over and immediately begins cleaning house - or houses, that is. Cleans them...

Hundreds of Countries.
Billions of Dollars.
One Lie.

In 2014 a brilliant Oxford graduate called Dr Ruja Ignatova promised...

Fennell... , Greenwood...

What gives the world's best leaders the edge?

Will Greenwood is best known for being an integral part of the 2003 Rugby World...

It's time to turn your dreams into reality. You just need a mentor to guide the way.

Holly Tucker MBE - co-founder of...