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For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilisation. From the time of historical Troy until ...
It seems at first commonplace: a photograph of peasants at harvest time, after work well done, resting contentedly with their tools, behind the fruits of ...
In 1498 a young captain sailed from Portugal, circumnavigated Africa, crossed the Indian Ocean, and discovered the sea route to the Indies, opening up access ...
Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide ...
Permission to speak, Sah! In the aftermath of the Second World War, over two million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed services ...
A year in Paris...Since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision - and been transformed by their sojourn in the ...
'The guillotine - and capital punishment and other diverse methods of dispensing death more generally - have been the abiding obsessions of my life. It began very ...
The Forty Days of Musa Dagh is Werfel's masterpiece that brought him international acclaim in 1933, drawing the world's attention to the Armenian ...
From 1915 to 1923, the Ottoman Empire drove the Armenians from their ancestral homeland and slaughtered 1.5 million of them in the process. While ...
The second part of Hugh Thomas' magisterial history of the Spanish Empire
Charles V, Emperor of Europe and the New World, is the central figure ...
For over three thousand years, the Mediterranean Sea has been one of the great centres of world civilization. From the time of Troy until the ...
Daughters of the formidable Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain, Katherine and Juana were born in to a world of privilege and luxury that came at ...
From Joan of Arc to ordinary servants, a unique collection of female voices from the Middle Ages
'Woman, who is equal to the moon in ...
Visiting a villa built by Lorenzo de Medici outside Pisa, David Gilmour fell into conversation about the unification of Italy with a distinguished former minister ...
Based on new archival information, this book upends two hundred years of scholarship on England's Glorious Revolution to claim that it-not the French Revolution-was ...
