The two Allied leaders were not just makers of history but performers, selective of their actions and words during wartime and as empires fell.
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Death in Cold War Delhi
Delhi – City of Spies explores Cold War intrigue in 1950s India, where espionage, power politics and an unsolved murder collide in the capital..
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The Mother City
From the mythic to the unhesitatingly heroic, this opening extract from a history of Glasgow examines what exactly forged the city’s strong sense of self.
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Hugh O’Neill and The History Behind City of the Damned
A new short story, City of the Damned, follows Ireland’s most formidable rebel from the battlefield to Rome, tracing the life of a man who came close to breaking English rule.
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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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Churchill and De Gaulle: Artists of History
Richard Vinen
The two Allied leaders were not just makers of history but performers, selective of their actions and words during wartime and as empires fell.
Death in Cold War Delhi
Delhi – City of Spies explores Cold War intrigue in 1950s India, where espionage, power politics and an unsolved murder collide in the capital..
The Mother City
Alistair Moffat
From the mythic to the unhesitatingly heroic, this opening extract from a history of Glasgow examines what exactly forged the city’s strong sense of self.
Hugh O’Neill and The History Behind City of the Damned
A new short story, City of the Damned, follows Ireland’s most formidable rebel from the battlefield to Rome, tracing the life of a man who came close to breaking English rule.
Lt. Col. Leslie Vernon Fitzpatrick and The Sherdils
From the Malayan campaign to the tense final days of Japanese rule in Singapore, the career of Lt Col “Fitz” Fitzpatrick, preserved in family papers, brings to light wartime stories of the Indian Army and the final years of the Raj.
30 Commando and The Wizard War
During the race for wartime technology, Ian Fleming’s 30 Commando led Britain’s hunt for enemy intelligence as the Allied invasion of Sicily and mainland Italy gathered pace.
Ibsen’s Ghosts at the Questors Theatre – A Review
Jasmine Guama
A dark and emotionally charged production of Ghosts at the Questors Theatre.
The Two Hundred Years War and the Shaping of Our World
Michael Livingston
What we label the Hundred Years War is an example of modern periodisation, clouding the forces at play in the Anglo-French conflicts of the Medieval period. Reframing the conflict over two centuries uncovers how such European rivalries prompted the era of global exploration that followed.
A Royal Family’s Imprisonment
Mickey Mayhew
A fresh look at the Romanovs in captivity reveals the Tsarina Alexandra's courage, flaws and steel during the Russian Revolution.
Escaping the Grip of Eastern European Communism
Peter Kasl
A first-hand account of an 11-year-old fleeing communist Czechoslovakia, the years that followed in the West and the price of pursuing freedom.
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