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Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age ...
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The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet the Romans were first ...
One of America's foremost scholars of religion examines the tumultuous era that gave birth to the modern Judeo-Christian tradition
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When Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874, no one could have predicted the path that lay ahead. But, as it turned out, from Winston ...
As the clock strikes the end of the war, the time begins to turn towards a new age - the one we call now.
This shift ...
As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Luther - hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle - found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling ...
This long-awaited, revelatory memoir from Britain?s former Prime Minister offers vital insights into our extraordinary times
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Historians love to write about rulers - kings, emperors, presidents - or about vast social forces - migration, industrialisation - but what if they are all missing the point ...
The Victorians built tens of thousands of churches in the hundred years between 1800 and 1900. Wherever you might be in the English-speaking world, you ...
India is killing the Ganges, and the Ganges in turn is killing India. The waterway that has nourished more people than any on earth for ...
Berlin, 1948 - a divided city in a divided country in a divided Europe. The ruined German capital lay 120 miles inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany. Stalin ...
Man has always been fascinated by Equus caballus, recasting horse power into many forms: a hunk of meat, an industrial and agricultural machine, a luxury ...
