Author: John Curtis

In May 1880 Captain F.C. Burton, a British political officer in Afghanistan, rescued a group of merchants who had been captured by bandits while tr...

This book gathers together hitherto unpublished letters from William Kennett Loftus (1820-1858) to friends and relatives in Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Th...

Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made into one. Osc...

An important collection of eight essays on Ancient Persia (Iran) in the periods of the Achaemenid Empire (539-330 BC), when the Persians establishe...

This is an exquisite photographic portrait of this beautiful university city. The grand architecture of the colleges, the pastoral calm of the tree...

A history of the Cotswolds

The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous objects to have survived from the ancient world. Inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of th...

Published to accompany an exhibition at the British Museum in 2012, this beautifully illustrated book celebrates the relationship between horses an...