‘The Tafts’ by George W. Liebmann review
In The Tafts, veteran Baltimore lawyer George W. Liebmann provides an account of five generations of the Ohio-based dynasty of
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 1
‘Courageous, morally complex history – and superb scholarship’ Nile Green is Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History at UCLA
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You never quite know what you’ll find when you open the door to one of England’s many ancient parish churches.
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Books of the Year 2024: Part 2
If you haven’t yet read the History Today Books of the Year Part 1, you can find it here. ‘His
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Just over 800 years ago, in the autumn of 1224, a small band of strangely dressed men landed at Dover.
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As sure as chickens come from eggs, books have authors. Knowing the author’s identity gives a book authority; that’s how
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Aside from the Falklands War, and perhaps the Spanish conquest, Brits, in general, know very little about the history of
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Like many Egyptologists, the Ptolemies make me rather uncomfortable. It is a cliché to say that the Ptolemaic period (323-30
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Towards the end of Prospero’s Books, Peter Greenaway’s 1991 reimagining of The Tempest, John Gielgud moves through a shifting landscape
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‘After the Flying Saucers Came’, ‘Think to New Worlds’ and ‘How to Think Impossibly’ review
In June 1947 Kenneth Arnold was flying a small plane over Mount Rainier in Washington when nine bright objects began
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