Stephen Halliday

From Count Dracula's residence in Piccadilly to Platform 93/4, an exhaustively researched guide...

Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Britain changed from an agricultural to an industrial ecomony, people swarmed into the towns and cities where the work was; by the end of Queen Victoria's reign, almost 80 per cent of the population was ...

A study of London's most notorious prison and some of its most famous inmates, such as Dick Turpin and Daniel Defoe.