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Meet Ivan Maisky: The Munich Agreement

In this, the final part of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, author Gabriel Gorodetsky…

By Elain Harwood, author of Space, Hope and Brutalism — It’s very easy to take England’s universities for…

Article by Bernie Krause, author of Voices of the Wild ‘While a picture may be worth a thousand…

Ancient History, Author Articles, History, Recent Posts September 17, 2015

‘In a pre-mechanical world, where human muscle was one of the main forms of motive power, young, fit…

In part three of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky selects and introduces…

In part two of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky shares an excerpt…

Author Articles, Biography, European History, History, Politics August 20, 2015

As the Soviet ambassador to London from 1932-1943, Ivan Maisky had a front-row seat at some of the…

Author Articles, Medicine, Recent Posts, Science August 18, 2015

The Lock and Key of Medicine by Lara V. Marks is the first book to tell the extraordinary…

Wellington after Waterloo by Rory Muir The Duke of Wellington felt far from triumphant after defeating Napoleon at…

The recent official announcement of Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s death has excited widespread debate and speculation on what…

Author Articles, Nature, Recent Posts, Wildlife August 4, 2015

By Tony Angell, author of The House of Owls — To most of us owls are mysterious and elusive…

Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 BC, is the focus of a lively new biography…

Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 BC, is the focus of a lively new biography…

‘What happened to France in 1940 was what happened to every power that went up against Germany in…

Xerxes, Great King of the Persian Empire from 486-465 BC, is the focus of a lively new biography…