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The Big Debrief – Review
At its inaugural conference, Britain at War brought together leading historians and broadcasters for a day of lively discussion.
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?
The “Ghost” Match: An Extract
Stefano Bizzotto
In a surreal, chilling moment, the Chilean national football team played alone in Santiago’s Estadio Nacional after the Soviet Union refused to compete in a stadium that the Pinochet regime had turned into a site of imprisonment, torture and death.
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.
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