Exile, war and social exclusion shape the lives of the author’s protagonists in The Bratinsky Affair, our Fiction Book of the Month, which takes the enduring experience of displacement as one of its major themes.
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In 1944, the Polish resistance managed to recover parts of Hitler’s secret V-2 rockets and passed vital intelligence to Britain, the operation becoming one of the most remarkable, yet overlooked, intelligence successes of the war.
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The World’s Reformation
An exploration of the forgotten global ambitions of Protestantism, showing how missionaries sought to spread their faith far and wide, their patchy success an indication of the imaginative limits of early modern Europeans.
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The documentary series has made an impressive start, combining rarely seen footage with sharp historical insight and confident storytelling.
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The World’s Reformation
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Writing Displacement: Imperial Russia to 1970s Ireland
Exile, war and social exclusion shape the lives of the author’s protagonists in The Bratinsky Affair, our Fiction Book of the Month, which takes the enduring experience of displacement as one of its major themes.
A Rocket in the Marshes
Guy Walters
In 1944, the Polish resistance managed to recover parts of Hitler’s secret V-2 rockets and passed vital intelligence to Britain, the operation becoming one of the most remarkable, yet overlooked, intelligence successes of the war.
The World’s Reformation
Alec Ryrie
An exploration of the forgotten global ambitions of Protestantism, showing how missionaries sought to spread their faith far and wide, their patchy success an indication of the imaginative limits of early modern Europeans.
World War II with Tom Hanks – Review
The documentary series has made an impressive start, combining rarely seen footage with sharp historical insight and confident storytelling.
A Battle in Myth and Blood
Steve Tibble
Outnumbered, isolated and feared, the Assassins and the Templars became two of the medieval world’s most formidable organisations despite being on opposite sides of the crusades.
What Makes an Iconic Structure?
Steven Parissien
Britain’s truly iconic buildings are those whose architecture, symbolism and evolving histories have allowed them to transcend aesthetics and become expressions of national identity.
Norman Castles: Living Under the Norman Yoke
An overview of how early Norman castles were built, evolved, and reshaped power in England after the Norman Conquest.
Gambling with the Dead
Rory Waterman
A grisly Lincolnshire folktale from Holbeach tells of the gambling antics of three drunken men in a churchyard, a story that passed into local legend as an enduring warning of sacrilege, remorse, and supernatural retribution.
The Battle to Keep the War Moving
Philip James Day
A rediscovered wartime diary shows how the Persian Corridor supply route workedin practice. Not as strategy, but as constant repair under immense pressure.
Lichfield: England’s Third Archbishop
Rory Naismith
In the age of Offa, a short-lived archbishopric at Lichfield (787–803) reflected the expansion and consolidation of Mercian rule, though later Canterbury sources recast it as a contentious and anomalous creation.
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