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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 ...
"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 third volume of Alison Weir's magisterial history of the queens of medieval EnglandMedieval queens were seen as mere dynastic trophies, yet many of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
