London's Underground: The Story of The Tube

It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city, the Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its leafy suburbs. The distinctive roundel, colour-coded maps and Johnston typeface have become design classics, recognised and imitated worldwide.

June Brides were from South London and had considerable success in the Indie Charts in the mid 1980's. This 2 CD set contains all the June Brides tracks ever recorded including the BBC Radio 1 sessions with John Peel and Janice Long, plus the solo work from Phil Wilson which followed the break up of the band. Definitive 41 track package includes very detailed sleeve notes, rare pictures and complete discography. Cherry Red. 2005.
A compilation of all tracks by The June Brides plus most of tracks by Phil Wilson solo with some rarities includes BBC sessions tracks between 1984 to 1987.

How did a small group of powerful intelligence officials convince tens of millions of Americans that the president is a traitor, without a shred of evidence?

In the summer of 1860, more than fifty years after the United States legally abolished the international slave trade, 110 men, women, and children from Benin and Nigeria were brought ashore in Alabama under cover of night. They were the last recorded group of Africans deported to the United States as slaves. Timothy Meaher, an established Mobile businessman, sent the slave ship, the Clotilda , to Africa, on a bet that he could "bring a shipful of niggers right into Mobile Bay under the officers' noses." He won the bet.

It spans the millennia and the continents – from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It takes you to unimagined places: to a Jewish kingdom in the mountains of southern Arabia; a Syrian synagogue glowing with radiant wall paintings; the palm groves of the Jewish dead in the Roman catacombs. And its voices ring loud and clear, from the severities and ecstasies of the Bible writers to the love poems of wine bibbers in a garden in Muslim Spain.