How Britain broke away from the Roman world is as essential to understanding the rise of the English language and a national identity as Germanic migration, subsequent conflict with native Britons and conversion to Christianity.
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Monarchs Anonymous at The Other Palace Theatre
A review of the historical comedy show which forces famous historical figures into a group therapy session.
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Prisoners of the Rising Sun: Life in Wartime Shanghai, by Deborah Swift
Life as a foreign national or a prisoner of war inside the Japanese internment camps required resilience and courage, and sits at the core of the author’s latest novel.
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Caesar’s Gaulish King: The Double Lives of Commius the Atrebatan
The stirring career of a one-time trusted ally, sometimes determined enemy, of Caesar reveals the complexities of loyalty and political manoeuvring in operation behind Rome’s invasions of Britain and Gaul.
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The Bases Britain Almost Abandoned in Cyprus
After the 1974 Turkish intervention, Britain came close to relinquishing sovereign territory on the island before American pressure compelled Harold Wilson's government to reverse course.
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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?
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Caesar’s Gaulish King: The Double Lives of Commius the Atrebatan
The stirring career of a one-time trusted ally, sometimes determined enemy, of Caesar reveals the complexities of loyalty and political manoeuvring in operation behind Rome’s invasions of Britain and Gaul.
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Tyrants and Demagogues
Drawing on the history of Syracuse, the author outlines the inspirations behind his new novel and examines just how power, identity and war shaped Sicilian history.
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The Overlooked History of the Vietnam War
Drawing on a childhood spent in 1960s Bangkok, a new novel blends fictional characters and plot with authentic people, places and experiences to recreate life for American families based in Thailand during the conflict.
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How England Began, by Nicholas Higham
Nicholas Higham
How Britain broke away from the Roman world is as essential to understanding the rise of the English language and a national identity as Germanic migration, subsequent conflict with native Britons and conversion to Christianity.
Monarchs Anonymous at The Other Palace Theatre
A review of the historical comedy show which forces famous historical figures into a group therapy session.
Prisoners of the Rising Sun: Life in Wartime Shanghai, by Deborah Swift
Life as a foreign national or a prisoner of war inside the Japanese internment camps required resilience and courage, and sits at the core of the author’s latest novel.
Caesar’s Gaulish King: The Double Lives of Commius the Atrebatan
Ferdinand Addis
The stirring career of a one-time trusted ally, sometimes determined enemy, of Caesar reveals the complexities of loyalty and political manoeuvring in operation behind Rome’s invasions of Britain and Gaul.
Sex, Psychoanalysis, and the Big Freeze of 1963, by Lucy Ashe
1963 acts as a pivot in the author’s new novel, one which brings into focus the strain between the previous decade’s conservatism and the approach of both female freedom and societal change, all against the backdrop of wintry weather.
The Overlooked History of the Vietnam War
Daria Sommers
Drawing on a childhood spent in 1960s Bangkok, a new novel blends fictional characters and plot with authentic people, places and experiences to recreate life for American families based in Thailand during the conflict.
The Cambridge Five and the Making of the Soviet Empire
A persuasive shift of focus onto the victims, one that reveals the human cost of Kim Philby’s leaking of operations behind the Iron Curtain, distinguishes a new examination of the Cambridge Five.
Our Man in Hawaii
A Japanese spy in Hawaii: how his meticulous gathering of intelligence almost gave away the plans to attack Pearl Harbour.
2026 Summer Reads from Aspects of History
Our authors and contributors recommend books to take on your summer holidays.
Tyrants and Demagogues
Drawing on the history of Syracuse, the author outlines the inspirations behind his new novel and examines just how power, identity and war shaped Sicilian history.
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