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These are the stories of women, famous, infamous and unknown, who shaped the course of medieval history. The lives and actions of medieval women were ...
A SUNDAY TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR
"Masterly and brilliant"-Simon Sebag Montefiore
"A book of vast scope and stunning insight."-Anthony Sattin ...
History has tended to measure war's winners and losers in terms of its major engagements, battles in which the result was so clear-cut that ...
When we think of climate change, we often picture man-made global warming, caused by greenhouse gas emissions. But natural climate change has occurred throughout human ...
Ever since the collapse of the Third Reich, anxieties have persisted about Nazism's revival in the form of a Fourth Reich. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld ...
For over three and a half years, from 1779 to 1783, the tiny territory of Gibraltar was besieged and blockaded, on land and at sea ...
From the bestselling author of Germania, Lotharinigia is the third installment in Simon Winder's personal history of Europe.
In 843 AD, the three surviving ...
'Europe where the sun dares scarce appear
For freezing meteors and congealed cold.'
Christopher Marlowe
In this innovative and compelling work of environmental history, Philipp ...
Despite being relatively brief, this very readable history covers environmental, political, social, economic, cultural and artistic elements, and is very open to regional variations and ...
Fat. Such a little word evokes big responses. While 'fat' describes the size and shape of bodies - their appearance - our negative reactions to corpulence also ...
Castles and palaces around the world are structures of grandeur, might and beauty.
From the flamboyance of Germany's fairy tale Neuschwanstein Castle to the ...