Archaeology

It is the year 1415, the epic battle of Agincourt has just been fought, and never has it been a more glorious time to be a knight. But as any warr...

What is the difference between a Bell Barrow and a Saucer Barrow? Which henge between Stonehenge and Avebury is bigger than both? How many thousand...

The first biography of sculptor Oscar Nemon (1906-1985), the unknown artist behind some of Britain''s most iconic statues. Oscar Nemon is one of...

In the 1920s and 1930s, the port-cities of Southeast Asia were staging grounds for diverse groups of ordinary citizens to experiment with modernity...

Composees a la demande de Louise-Dorothee de Saxe-Meiningen, admiratrice des ecrits historiques de Voltaire qui souhaitait lire une histoire du Sai...

The 1st Battalion, The Rhodesian Light Infantry, was one of the most innovative and successful counter-insurgency units in modern history. Formed a...

Publie deux ans avant la mort de Voltaire, le Commentaire historique sur les oeuvres de l''auteur de La Henriade presente l''image qu''il souhait...

Transatlantic Caribbean widens the scope of research on the Caribbean by focusing on its transatlantic interrelations with North America, Latin Ame...

Since the introduction of photography by commercial studio photographers and the colonial state in Kenya, this global medium has been intensely deb...

Fresh perspectives on the English clergy, their books, and the wider Anglo-Saxon church. Priests were ubiquitous figures in the Anglo-Saxon world:...

King of a lost realm. Wearer of a pawned crown. Heir to an empire beyond reach. From the ashes of Magna Carta, a new England was to be forged. He...

Iris Origo, one of the twentieth century's great diarists, was born in England in 1902. As a child, she moved between England, Ireland, Italy and A...

The first book in English dedicated to the actor and director Tanaka KinuyoPraised as amongst the greatest actors in the history of Japanese cinema...