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Where have the people in any particular place actually come from? What are the historical complexities in any particular place? This evocative historical journey around ...
Belonging is a magnificent cultural history abundantly alive with energy, character and colour. From the Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492 it tells the stories ...
A new approach to ideas about war, from 'Britain's leading academic strategist' (Economist)
Where should we look for new dangers? What cunning plans might ...
Darkness divides opinion. Some are frightened of the dark, or at least prefer to avoid it, and there are many who dislike what it appears ...
A mouthwatering journey across the centuries and continents to discover how food drove the British Empire and shaped the world
'A wholly pleasing book, which ...
Henry III became King of England within days of his ninth birthday. His father, King John, had overseen a disastrous period in English history and ...
Christmas in Tudor times was a period of feasting, revelry and merrymaking to drive the cold winter away. A carnival atmosphere presided at court, with ...
A prominent scholar explores King Arthur's historical development, proposing that he began as a fictional character developed in the ninth century
According to legend ...
A leading historian reconstructs the forgotten history of medieval Africa
From the birth of Islam in the seventh century to the voyages of European exploration ...
A penetrating account of the dynamics of World War II's Grand Alliance through the messages exchanged by the "Big Three"
Stalin exchanged more than ...
This book explores Irish participation in the British imperial project after 'Southern' Ireland's independence in 1922. Building on a detailed study of the Irish ...
A monumental history of Asia Minor from the Stone Age to the Roman Empire
In this critically acclaimed book, Christian Marek masterfully provides the first ...
People have been looking for the sites of the long-lost and mysterious battles of King Arthur for a thousand years. In this book, the result ...
