He took on Napoleon with a set of weapons that seemed unsuited to the task: flatterycourtesy an...

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Roger Osborne's work has provided a range of innovative insights into our views of the past, and ...

Between the opulent Edwardian years and the 1920s the First World War opens like a gap in time. E...

Elspeth Huxley captivated readers throughout the world with her 'memories of an African childhood...

In AD 381, Theodosius, emperor of the eastern Roman empire, issued a decree in which all his subj...