Carausius and Allectus ruled Britain for a decade after breaking from the Roman Empire, yet the origins and rise of these rebel emperors remain among the most intriguing mysteries of Roman Britain.
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Piercefield: The Time and the Place
The story of Piercefield House near Chepstow, a once-celebrated estate overlooking the River Wye that later fell into ruin.
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Wartime Letters: Αn Extract
A journalist by background and the daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, Harriman’s trip out of Moscow evokes the destruction wrought on the Eastern Front in World War Two.
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Turning Cold Cases Hot with Cryptanalysis
The hidden power of cryptanalysis: how secret codes have helped track mobsters, terrorists, and elusive killers.
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Ancient Blitzkrieg
The Roman army's use of fear and psychological warfare as a weapon
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Mining for History Part Two
Author Derek Birks continues his look at Britain after the Romans left
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David Hume: The Greatest Historian
Hume can help us live well, but also that he was a brilliant historian, and it is for this he should be better known.
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‘So The World May Know He Loved Me Once’: Catherine Dickens’s Story
Αnnie Elliot
On her deathbed, Mrs Dickens asked her daughter to give her letters from Charles to the British Museum ‘so the world may know he loved me once.’
Boudica’s Wrath: Law, Humiliation and the Road to Revolt
Sam F Hutchins
An exploration of the legal, political and personal factors behind Boudica’s revolt against Rome in 61AD.
Nuremberg: A Witness to Justice
An account of the Nuremberg Trials through the experiences of Howard Triest, a German-Jewish refugee and translator who confronted the leading figures of Nazi Germany as justice was brought to bear.
Inconsistent Attitudes, Inconsistent Treatment–First World War Conscientious Objectors in Britain
Kevin P. Bartlett
An examination of how inconsistent social attitudes and local tribunal decisions shaped the treatment of conscientious objectors in First World War Britain.
Carausius and Allectus: Filling the Gaps in Britain’s Roman Rebellion
John Pitts
Carausius and Allectus ruled Britain for a decade after breaking from the Roman Empire, yet the origins and rise of these rebel emperors remain among the most intriguing mysteries of Roman Britain.
Piercefield: The Time and the Place
The story of Piercefield House near Chepstow, a once-celebrated estate overlooking the River Wye that later fell into ruin.
Wartime Letters: Αn Extract
Kathleen Harriman
A journalist by background and the daughter of the US ambassador to the USSR, Harriman’s trip out of Moscow evokes the destruction wrought on the Eastern Front in World War Two.
Turning Cold Cases Hot with Cryptanalysis
A.D. Price
The hidden power of cryptanalysis: how secret codes have helped track mobsters, terrorists, and elusive killers.
After Elizabeth: Fear, Treason and the Dangerous Spring of 1603
The author of After Elizabeth explores the dangerous and uncertain months that followed the death of Elizabeth I.
Sea Power, Strategy, and Europe
Andrew Lambert
By securing the Low Countries and maintaining control of the seas, British statesmen including Wellington created a system that balanced the continent's powers and preserved stability for a century until 1914.
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