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Jade Scott
A new book examines Mary Stuart’s encrypted documents and here the author writes about letters and their use by Mary during captivity.
Charles J. Esdaile
The Wars of the Three Kingdoms have percolated into ghost stories, as the author of an innovative new book argues.
Bestselling author and award-winning film-maker Phil Craig explains why he felt compelled to tackle the historical forces at play in his new globe-crossing examination of the final year of World War Two.
It is in the law courts where we can find much of the great oratory of Cicero, as the author of a new biography shows.
The story of the Jewish children who fled to France and America during the Holocaust
Adam Staten reveals how the search for the Holy Lance shaped the siege of Antioch and divided the First Crusade’s leaders.
Rhiannon Garth Jones
Epic tales reframe the past, revealing how communities forge identity through shared myth.
From Kaunas to Kobe: The Epic Journey of WW2 Refugees via the Trans-Siberian Railway
John Sayles
In his latest novel, the American writer and film director John Sayles examines the treatment of the Native Americans in the late 19th, and early 20th centuries, as young Indians were ‘civilised.’
Michael Admiraal
Michael Admiraal reflects on wartime atrocities and technological advancement during a visit to Peenemünde.
