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Pompeii explodes a number of myths - from the very date of the eruption, probably a few months later than usually thought; the hygiene of the ...
An order of warrior monks founded to protect pilgrims to Jerusalem, the Templars were among the most powerful bodies in the medieval world. Yet two ...
Of all the civilisations existing in the year 1000, that of Western Europe seemed the unlikeliest candidate for future greatness. Compared to the glittering empires ...
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against ...
Now available in paperback, this chronicle documents the lives of Tsars famous and infamous in a lively series of biographical portraits stretching from the late ...
A deeply insightful social history of Hitler's rise to power and the attitudes of the German people during the era of the Third Reich ...
Cromwell spent only nine months of his eventful life in Ireland, yet he stands accused there of war crimes, religious persecution and ethnic cleansing. In ...
"The most densely annotated, richly illustrated, and user friendly edition" of the greatest classical work of history ever written (Daniel Mendelsohn, The New Yorker)-from ...
The year is AD100 and Rome stands supreme and unconquerable, from the desert sands of Mesopotamia to the misty highlands of Caledonia. But the might ...
How did the Romans go from a small tribe living on the banks of the Tiber to an imperial power that at its height encompassed ...
In his introduction to this new edition of Herbert ('Doc') Evatt's brilliant account of the six rural labourers transported in 1834 for swearing an ...
This first comprehensive biography of Henry I, the youngest son of William the Conqueror and an elusive figure for historians, offers a rich and compelling ...
At the end of his life the emperor Augustus wrote an account of his achievements in which he reviewed his rise to power, his conquest ...
A geneticist explains the science behind genetic history and what it has revealed about Jewish origins
Who are the Jews? Where did they come from ...
