
A 16th-century Portuguese Plan of the Badi’ Palace
Writing a book is hard, but finding centuries-old primary sources of Moroccan royal households can be even harder….
Writing a book is hard, but finding centuries-old primary sources of Moroccan royal households can be even harder….
Heritage is a physical manifestation of days gone by – the remains of humankind’s past; from our buildings,…
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
How do you pack an illustrious writing career of over half a century into a single book? With…
This month we’ve been looking back at some of the wonderful bookshops we’ve featured as our Bookshop of…
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
In this blogpost, Helen Yaffe, author of, We Are Cuba!: How a Revolutionary People Have Survived in a…
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England…
What did the crusades ever do for us? This clash of medieval civilizations is defined by warfare, but over…
When last summer John Henderson published Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, he little…
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. During the war, the arts were closely…
Although most people are not aware of it, forecasting plays a major role in everyday life. From choosing what…
Was Matilda a power-hungry she-wolf, as history portrays her, or a woman ahead of her time, fighting for…
To celebrate the publication of The Classical Music Lover’s Companion To Orchestral Music, we asked Robert Philip, scholar,…
For nearly four years, and against all the odds, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin led the…