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As with everything else, there were good and bad Roman emperors. The good, like Trajan (98-117), Hadrian (117-138), Antoninus Pius (138-161) and Marcus Aurelius (161-180 ...
On fire for God-a sweeping history of puritanism in England and America
Begun in the mid-sixteenth century by Protestant nonconformists keen to reform England's ...
There is an ancient and quite baseless myth that the use of torture has never been legal in Britain. This old wives' tale arose because ...
Today travellers by land, sea and air take accurate navigation for granted but it was not always thus. The author, a highly experienced sailor, sets ...
The murder of the Princes in the Tower is the most famous cold case in English or British history. Traditionally considered victims of a ruthless ...
A Times History Book of the Year
Valentine's Day, 1613. Elizabeth Stuart (1596-1662), the sixteen-year-old granddaughter of Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Frederick V ...
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it--with the kind of objectivity that ...
From popular fiction such as The Hobbit and Game of Thrones to the universality of the English language, the continuing influence of the Anglo-Saxons can ...
A dramatic rethinking of the encounter between Montezuma and Hernando Cortes that completely overturns what we know about the Spanish conquest of the Americas
On ...
A funny and entertaining history of printed books as told through absurd moments in the lives of authors and printers, collected by television's favorite ...
Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling ...
Historian and travel writer Tony Perrottet chronicles the events of the Cuban Revolution and the figures at the center of the guerrilla uprising- Che Guevara ...
How the rise of the West was a temporary exception to the predominant world order
What accounts for the rise of the state, the creation ...
