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"The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text ...
The twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a time of personal monarchy, when the close friendship or petty feuding between kings and queens could determine the ...
The third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval EnglandMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of ...
This rich history of Antwerp in the sixteenth century was a Times Book of the Year and R4 Book of the Week
A rich history ...
Warfare was a crucial aspect of Celtic society, deeply linked to the spreading of their culture through all Europe. Between the fifth century BC, when ...
The battle of Lepanto has long been considered one of the decisive naval battles of history. Yet, the savage fighting on Sunday, 7 October 1571 ...
At its height in the second century AD, the Roman Empire extended across continents, from Hadrian's border wall to the port towns of the ...
A deep history of how Renaissance Italy and the Spanish empire were shaped by a lingering fascination with breeding.
The Renaissance is celebrated for the ...
Russia's invasion of Ukraine is the latest chapter in a series of events that have their origins in World War One. The difficult existential ...
Through a series of lively and accessible biographical essays, Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism century Eastern Europe. By examining the revolutionary careers ...
The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe's borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II
Focusing on the former province of ...
An acclaimed history of the Vikings and The Times and Sunday Times History Book of the Year
The 'Viking Age' is traditionally held to begin ...
In battle, the medieval knight was the equivalent of the modern tank. A knight could plough his way through ranks of foot-soldiers, and on massive ...
Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the malevolent, conspiring Jew or Muslim are far more than a ...
A Guardian Best Book of 2020
A History Today Book of the Year, 2020
Renowned historian Olivette Otele uncovers the untold history of Europeans of ...
