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1326 was one of the most dramatic years in English history. The queen of England, Isabella of France, invaded the country with an army of ...
On 11 June 323 BC in Babylon, Alexander the Great breathed his last. He left one of the largest empires the world had seen, stretching ...
Since the Venerable Bede wrote his iconic Ecclesiastic History of England in the eighth century, King Penda has been relegated to the role of villain ...
The Congo-Ocean railroad stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony ...
The Anarchy was the first civil war in post-Conquest England, enduring throughout the reign of King Stephen between 1135 and 1154. It ultimately brought about ...
The revelatory history of Krakowiec - 'a little place you've never heard of ' - through which we see life in Eastern Europe as never before
Decades ...
Libertine London investigates the sex lives of women from 1680 to 1830, the period known as the long eighteenth century. It uncovers the various experiences ...
On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping, China's former paramount leader and now a revered elder statesman, set off on a month ...
A panoramic new history of the revolutionary decades between 1760 and 1825, from North America and Europe to Haiti and Spanish America, showing how progress ...
The extraordinary, inspiring and ultimately tragic story of Sir Roger Casement, a remarkable man who led a life ahead of his time
Pioneering human rights ...
In Rome the echoes of the past resound clearly in its palaces and monuments, and in the remains of the ancient imperial city. But another ...
During the 1,000-year history of the English monarchy there have been eight kings with the name of Henry. The Eight King Henrys of England ...
The Mighty Warrior Kings traces the history of early Europe through the biographies of nine kings, who had the courage, determination and martial might to ...
What killed Katherine Parr? She was the ultimate Tudor survivor, the queen who managed to outwit and outlive Henry VIII. Yet just over eighteen months ...
The Scythians were a horse nomads from the central Eurasian steppes who migrated south and west into the region around the Black Sea from the ...