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.
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The Battle to Keep the War Moving
A rediscovered wartime diary shows how the Persian Corridor supply route workedin practice. Not as strategy, but as constant repair under immense pressure.
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Lichfield: England’s Third Archbishop
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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The Writer and the Traitor
As the Normandy landings approached, the surprise resignation from MI6 of the author Graham Greene – a close friend of Kim Philby – cast a shadow over one of the war’s most carefully orchestrated intelligence operations.
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The Writer and the Traitor
As the Normandy landings approached, the surprise resignation from MI6 of the author Graham Greene – a close friend of Kim Philby – cast a shadow over one of the war’s most carefully orchestrated intelligence operations.
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What is the Blood Price?
The novelist's latest is a departure from the Norman invasion, but what's the story behind it?
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Democracies vs. Authoritarian States
A never-so-timely comparison of Athens and Sparta explores whether political freedom can establish military superiority and determine the outcome of ideological conflict.
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How Did the Romans Respond to the Deaths of their Emperors?
Rumour in the Roman world tended to flourish when it came to the the fate of emperors, threatening imperial stability and exposing public anxiety.
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The Battle to Keep the War Moving
A rediscovered wartime diary shows how the Persian Corridor supply route workedin practice. Not as strategy, but as constant repair under immense pressure.
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The Surrender of Cornwallis: A Path to Progress
Richard Middleton
Charles Cornwallis has a reputation as a disastrous military leader up against George Washington, but he was a progressive administrator in Ireland and India.
Capital of Spies
Bernd von Kostka
After the end of the Second World War, Berlin was a hotbed of espionage.
Could the Dardanelles Straits Have Been Forced?
The Allied Naval campaign to force a passage through the straits ended on 18th March 1915, a controversial decision to this day.
Son of Mercia
The bestselling author has a new series set in 9th century Mercia.
The Vanishing Children of Paris
Anna Mazzola
In the winter of 1750 children started disappearing from the streets of Paris.
From Palestine to Persia and Back: The Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
Stephen Keoghane
A new book charts the experience of the Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry in the Second World War and here its editor describes the campaign in the Middle East.
Mining for History Part Two
Author Derek Birks continues his look at Britain after the Romans left
Rationing and the Black Market in Paris During the War
Chris Lloyd
The crime writer examines how ordinary Parisians struggled to obtain the necessities of life under Nazi rule.
1953: The Year of Living Dangerously
Roger Hermiston
After World War Two, The Doomsday Clock was established by scientists to mark how close humanity is to nuclear annihilation, with midnight being the end of the world.
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