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Brian Williams
Brian Williams is a British historian and the author of Marshal Ney: Fall from Glory which was published in August 2025.
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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.
From Fact into Fiction: The Origins of The Devils of Cardona As every historian knows, the past is another country, and documents are the indispensable tools that we use to find our way into it. Wander too far from the paper trail, and history can easily drift into...
Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle, by Max Hastings
The veteran chronicler delves into the landings at Sword Beach, for many troops their first taste of war
Sword: D-Day - Trial by Battle, by Max Hastings A new work by Max Hastings, éminence grise of military historians, is always an eagerly anticipated event. In recent years we have been treated to his brilliant accounts of Vietnam, the Dambusters raid (Chastise),...
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.
Anywhere But The Western Front More than 100 years after the guns finally fell silent, our memory of the outbreak of the World War One is still firmly centered on what happened in Belgium and France. This is perhaps not surprising, as, in many ways, it was here that...
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Finding Carthage Among The Romans
A dominant power in the Western Mediterranean has always been overshadowed by its conquering Roman rivals, but there is much more to the North African realm’s story.
Finding Carthage Among The Romans The destruction of Carthage by the armies of the Roman Republic in 146BC was a seminal event in the rise of Rome to power across the Mediterranean. In popular memory, Carthage has, ever since, been remembered as that ‘enemy’ of Rome....
The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots
Packed with intrigue, self-preservation and a cache of coded correspondence, the 19 years spent by the Scottish queen as a prisoner in England heralds a dramatic retelling.
The Captive Years of Mary, Queen of Scots If my latest book Exile were a novel, nobody could predict its ending. With the story of Mary, Queen of Scots, however, the final chapter is well known: the ailing queen, dressed in russet, with a small dog hidden beneath her...
‘Specimens of Snobbery’: Cricket and the Hypocrisy of the Victorian Imagination
The psychology and morals of an era can be unearthed from the cricket's plotlines and characters.
‘Specimens of Snobbery’: Cricket and the Hypocrisy of the Victorian Imagination ‘The national game of cricket,’ wrote Lord William Lennox in 1840, ‘has a peculiar claim to the people generally; and is one of those games open alike to all. It is free from selfishness,...
