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Let's travel in time together, a thousand or so years back, and meet Viking women in their hearth-lit world. How did these medieval viragoes ...
The sixteenth century in Europe was a time of chronic destabilization in which institutions of traditional authority were challenged and religious wars seemed unending. Yet ...
The Iron Curtain divided the continent of Europe, north to south, with the Berlin Wall as its most visible, infamous manifestation. Since the Cold War ...
In the Shadow of the Empress is the sweeping family saga of beautiful Maria Theresa, the only woman to inherit and rule the vast Habsburg ...
A charming, lively and often amusing tour of 36 forgotten episodes and overlooked people and places of Scottish history.
While Scotland's history cannot be ...
This journey to the edge of Europe mixes history, travelogue and oral testimony to spellbinding and revelatory effect.
Few countries have suffered more from the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...