Raj Joseph retells the story of Sarajevo in the summer of 1914 and the outbreak of war in a new drama directed by Lyndsey Turner
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How England Began
How Britain broke away from the Roman world is as essential to understanding the rise of the English language and a national identity as Germanic migration, subsequent conflict with native Britons and conversion to Christianity.
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Monarchs Anonymous at The Other Palace Theatre
A review of the historical comedy show which forces famous historical figures into a group therapy session.
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Prisoners of the Rising Sun: Life in Wartime Shanghai
Life as a foreign national or a prisoner of war inside the Japanese internment camps required resilience and courage, and sits at the core of the author’s latest novel.
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The Bases Britain Almost Abandoned in Cyprus
After the 1974 Turkish intervention, Britain came close to relinquishing sovereign territory on the island before American pressure compelled Harold Wilson's government to reverse course.
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Can Aethelred the Unready Be Rehabilitated?
The author asks whether he was England’s most incompetent king, or whether history unfairly blames him for Viking successes and overlooks his achievements?
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Caesar’s Gaulish King: The Double Lives of Commius the Atrebatan
The stirring career of a one-time trusted ally, sometimes determined enemy, of Caesar reveals the complexities of loyalty and political manoeuvring in operation behind Rome’s invasions of Britain and Gaul.
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Tyrants and Demagogues
Drawing on the history of Syracuse, the author outlines the inspirations behind his new novel and examines just how power, identity and war shaped Sicilian history.
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The Overlooked History of the Vietnam War
Drawing on a childhood spent in 1960s Bangkok, a new novel blends fictional characters and plot with authentic people, places and experiences to recreate life for American families based in Thailand during the conflict.
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Stockton and Darlington’s Bicentenary
David Gwyn
Though the railway had a pivotal role in the development of modern rail transport, the historian challenges persistent myths that it was the world’s first.
The Road Back to Boston
Thor Hogan
On April 19 1775, colonial troops battled redcoats at Concord's North Bridge, which resulted in nearly three-hundred British casualties and paved the way for American independence.
Dealbreakers: Advice on how to turn your submission into a publishing contract.
Charlotte Rose
Publishing advice for first-time novelists from a professional editor
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.
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