Twenty-five years of working in Britain's stately homes. How the author transformed both the antique fairs and stately homes industries over the period. A unique insight into the antiques trade and how the aristocracy ticks. ..

Astonishing and to the point, World Slavery: The Bigger Picture by Robert Soper examines the appalling, often shocking history of slavery from ancient time to the modern world. Disturbing on a number of fronts, the author isolates incredible acts of cruel brutality at the very dawn of mankind. From early Egypt, Greece, and Rome through the Dark Ages to slavery in Islam, the Far East, and Columbus's first voyage, he describes the Eunuchs and contextualizes the slave experience by describing life in Africa and during the Industrial Revolution, thus providing a unique contrasting assessment. An important and comprehensive work of nonfiction, the author illustrates ..

Is it possible to believe in both the Biblical Creation and the Theory of Evolution? Author Robert Soper believes that you can do just that and this ground breaking work shows how and why. By exploring ancient texts, maps and artifacts from across the globe, looking at them through the eyes of an engineer some startling facts emerge. Facts that indicate an earlier highly intelligent civilization who walked our planet in pre-dynystic times. Were they the fabled 'Giants' who, according to Genesis, bred with Earth based women to produce a new race of super humans? From the clues left behind from the Giza pyramids to the stone work of South and Central America and t ..

There are some things that can be quintessentially described as being 'English, rather than 'British', and one of those is the English pub. This is the story of one of those pubs. It is the story of The Windmill Inn, a structure that has evolved from being a farm that sold beer to the popular up market haven in Yorkshire where the clientele come from far and wide. Using information going back before WW2 and gathering personal memories going back as far as that, this story shows how the village pub has been in the past, and remains so in the present, the hub of village society. Robert Soper is an award winning writer on a variety of subjects and has been a client ..