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In our age of political divisions, this portrait of the women outsiders who took part in Spanish Civil War asks questions of solidarity and resistance ...
A dynamic historian revisits the workers' internationals, whose scope and significance are commonly overlooked.
In current debates about globalization, open and borderless elites are often ...
Scholars and laymen alike have long projected their fantasies onto the great expanse of the global North, whether it be as a frozen no-man's-land ...
A national hero in his native land, Olav Haraldsson has as much resonance for the Norwegians as King Arthur does for the British. Unlike Arthur ...
In the eleventh century, the rulers of the lands surrounding the North Sea are all hungry for power. To get power they need soldiers, to ...
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'A fascinating and often violent odyssey, spanning more than 1,000 years of conflict and culture'
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Flat, fertile, and fatally tempting to ...
Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world. How did these medieval viragoes ...
The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet ...
The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation. Since the Cold War ...
In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg ...
A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history.
While Scotland's history cannot be ...
This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.
Few countries have suffered more from the ...
The essential history of an iconic European city, by Cambridge academic Elizabeth Drayson.
'An admirable achievement... [Drayson has] expertise as a scholar and command as ...
A Times History Book of the Year 2022
A TLS Book of the Year 2022
'Exhilarating and whip-smart' THE SUNDAY TIMES
From award-winning writer Edward ...
Fifty years after his death, Portugal's Salazar remains a controversial and enigmatic figure, whose conservative and authoritarian legacy still divides opinion. Some see him ...
