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Former royal correspondent Stephen Bates lifts the lid on the 1,800 years of power plays, ritual, tradition and intrigue in Britain's monarchy and ...
The life, dramatic reign, and enduring legacy of the pharaoh Ramesses the Great, with lessons for the present, from internationally acclaimed Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson
Ramesses ...
Dhirendra Jha's deeply researched history places Nathuram Godse's life as the juncture of the dangerous fault lines in contemporary India: the quest for ...
Fully illustrated with colour maps and images, this is an accessible introduction to Julius Caesar's Civil War.
Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great were ...
Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilisations, the collapse of ruling elites and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions ...
It is hard to comprehend the last 500 years of England's history without understanding the Church of England. From its roots in Catholicism through ...
In August 48 BC, following the earlier battle at Dyrrhachium, the two greatest Roman commanders of their generation met in battle again at Pharsalus in ...
With the death of Nero by his own shaky hand, the ill-sorted, ill-starred Iulio-Claudian dynasty came to an ignominious end, and Rome was up for ...
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'Tender, fascinating ... Lucid and illuminating' Robert Macfarlane
Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss ...
Discover the lives of the ancient Romans, pieced together from inscriptions, discarded letters, biographies and myth over two thousand years of history.
The Roman empire ...
The period covered in this book saw the Roman Republic face its greatest military challenges. In 264 the Romans were pitted against the might of ...
In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of ...
'When I was 10 years old, I was given Gurawul's story by my grandfather Muns...in the dirt...they made me promise to go ...
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman Prize
From acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark ...
Revealing the ten great engineers, across a variety of fields, who were responsible for the industrial revolution. Samuel Smiles published his "Lives of the Engineers ...
