The exiled queen's presence in England set in motion a deadly game of faith, power, and espionage that would define Elizabeth’s reign.
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Emma Sergeant’s ‘La Selva Oscura’ – Review
In a new exhibition, the artist transforms Dante’s “dark wood” into a landscape of birch trees, animals, and memory.
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From Fact into Fiction: The Origins of The Devils of Cardona
The historian and author draws on Spain’s Morisco past, persecution and intrigue within his novel.
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Anywhere But The Western Front
As shots were fired across multiple continents, World War One can only fully be grasped by looking beyond the Western Front and viewing it as a truly global conflict.
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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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Alexander the Great in the Dock
Classics for All’s latest 'moot trial' brought history’s greatest commander to the Supreme Court.
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Hadrian’s Wall: Strategic Masterpiece or Monumental Folly?
Was Hadrian's Wall built to keep out barbarians, or rather to demonstrate the power of Rome?
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Unionism & The Treaty
Ulster leader James Craig thought he had beaten Lloyd George during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
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Who Will Rescue Us?
Laura Hobson Faure
The story of the Jewish children who fled to France and America during the Holocaust
The Holy Lance of Antioch
Adam Staten reveals how the search for the Holy Lance shaped the siege of Antioch and divided the First Crusade’s leaders.
Epic tales: the surprising search for identity and origins in Virgil and Dante
Rhiannon Garth Jones
Epic tales reframe the past, revealing how communities forge identity through shared myth.
Last Train to Freedom
From Kaunas to Kobe: The Epic Journey of WW2 Refugees via the Trans-Siberian Railway
‘Educating the Natives’
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.’
The Last VC
Oliver Webb-Carter
Edward Charlton, Irish Guards, won the last Victoria Cross of the European theatre on 21 April 1945.
Forgotten History
Michael Admiraal
Michael Admiraal reflects on wartime atrocities and technological advancement during a visit to Peenemünde.
The Francisca
Paul Bernardi, author of the Rebellion trilogy explores the history of the francisca throwing axe and its role in his ongoing series.
LBJ’s Flawed Plan
Goeffrey Wawro
The American strategy in Vietnam was destined to failure from the start, so argues the author of a new military history of the war.
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