The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwell's Fitzrovia and Lenin's haunts.  Meer

The streets and squares of the West End of London, some of the most famous in the world, have been home to poets and pop stars, world-renowned artists and revolutionary anarchists.  Meer

London is, and always has been, crammed with literary life. Playwrights, novelists, diarists, poets and essayists have roamed its streets, met in its cafes and strolled in its gardens.  Meer

Manchester's town hall and its Royal Exchange epitomise the city's architectural grandeur and its industrial heritage. This title relates the remarkable and diverse history of this England's second city, covering various areas of human activity and incorporating the events and key moments in the city's history.  Meer

Always a rum place, the industrial revolution replaced rose bushes and hedgerows with metallic roads and iron railways, mud banks gave way to deep-water docks and sweatshops.  Meer

The first ever epic, detailed, exciting, accurate history of the world's first modern city - the industrial strength city.  Meer

Ed Glinert takes you around the most wonderful university city in the world, awesome Oxford, home of the most elegant architecture and intellectual residents.  Meer

Ed Glinert trawls through the strange stories, the crazed characters, the violent vignettes, the dried-up docks, the imaginative immigrants, the proud philanthropists to give a different history of the most misunderstood sector of the capital.  Meer

Essex: More than just the overspill from crowded London, the happy home of those lured by the sea, sand and Shoeburyness.  Meer

Yorkshire: God’s own country, a land of unimaginably beautiful countryside, derelict castles, cliff-hugging coastlines, brutally bleak moors, quirkily quaint villages, wondrously winding waterways and industrial monsters of cities.  Meer