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An enthralling account of paganism in Britain from the Paleolithic Age to the arrival of Christianity

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 The world s most controversial classicist debunks our movie style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy Laura Silverman Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains as well as exploding many myths the very date of the eruption probably a few months later than usually thought or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs or the legendary number of brothels most likely only one or the massive death count maybe less than ten per cent of the population An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town its life and its continuing re discovery by Britain s favourite classicist

Liverpool beguiles Liverpool bewilders Swift s superb analysis gets to the scarred heart of this troubled beautiful and spirited city Paul Du Noyer Swift has a terrific eye for the telling detail You should read this book Guardian Fascinating funny and full of great stories just like the city itself Alywn Turner Deftly blends a sweeping multi century history of the city s rising and fading fortunes with the cultural vignettes of Beatlemania and Merseybeat the figure of the scally and Liverpool s birds and the emergence of football casual culture which began on Anfield and Goodison Park s terraces New Statesman Liverpool is a unique city within the United Kingdom its dialect hedonism friendliness rejection of Englishness and most pertinently its politics all make for a rich cultural landscape Yet many of the things that make Liverpool the city it is today were not always at the fore Furthermore the complexity of the city and an investigation into all aspects of its past has not been readily available until now In Scouse Republic David Swift expertly tracks the city s transformation from a humble village to a central component of the transatlantic slave trade and one of the most important ports in the world fr

An engaging richly illustrated account of parish churches and churchgoers in England from the Anglo Saxons to the mid sixteenth century

Sumption is that rare and precious thing a serious decent honest thinker and one of our finest historians Dan Jones Sunday Times Gripping and eminently readable a compelling justification for the enduring value of historical narrative The Times Unsurpassed and probably unsurpassable Daily Telegraph In this final volume of his epic history of the Hundred Years War Jonathan Sumption tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest from the opening years of the reign of Henry VI until the loss of all of England s continental dominions except Calais thirty years later This sudden reversal of fortune was a seminal event in the history of the two principal nation states of western Europe ending four centuries of the English dynasty s presence in France and separating two countries whose fortunes had once been closely intertwined creating a new sense of national identity in both The legacy of these events would influence their divergent fortunes for centuries to come Behind the clash of arms stood some of the most remarkable personalities of the age the Duke of Bedford the English Regent who ruled much of France Charles VII of France who patiently rebuilt his kingdom after the disasters of his early years the captains popul

A dazzling tale brilliantly told Peter Frankopan Marries the intrigue of Europe s most powerful royal courts with the globe trotting thrill of adventure and discovery Sunday Telegraph 5 review DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY in the autumn of 1550 a little known public servant in the Venetian government Giovambattista Ramusio anonymously published Navigationi et Viaggi Journeys and Navigations Containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans from the diaries of Marco Polo to detailed reports from the Muslim diplomat Leo Africanus it became the basis of the world map we still use today In an enthralling narrative This Earthly Globe brings to life the man who used all his political skill to democratize knowledge and show how the world was much larger than anyone previously imagined and in doing so chronicles the birth of modern geography

The definitive history of the sixteenth century uprising that revolutionized Europe The German Peasants War was the greatest popular uprising in Western Europe before the French Revolution In 1524 and 1525 it swept across Germany with astonishing speed as thousands of people massed in armed bands to demand a new and more egalitarian order The peasants took control of vast areas of southern and middle Germany torching and plundering the monasteries convents and castles that stood in their way But they would prove no match for the forces of the lords who put down the revolt by slaying somewhere between seventy and a hundred thousand peasants in just over two months In Summer of Fire and Blood the first history of the German Peasants War in a generation leading historian Lyndal Roper uncovers the far reaching ramifications of this doomed rebellion Though the victors portrayed the uprising as naive and chaotic Roper s deeply researched account reveals instead a coherent mass movement inspired by the radical principles of the Protestant Reformation Told through the voices of and beliefs of the people themselves this is the thrilling tragic story of the peasants fight to change the world

A gripping reconstruction of the daring escape to freedom of hundreds of East Germans in the summer of 1989 and how it led to the fall of the Berlin Wall Beautifully written The Picnic reads like a thriller Peter Frankopan Exhilarating Observer Intensely moving Sunday Times Engrossing and dramatic William BoydIn August 1989 a group of activists did the unthinkable they entered the forbidden militarised zone of the Iron Curtain and held a picnic On wisps of rumour thousands of East German holiday makers had made their way to the border surveilled by lurking Stasi agents The stage was set for the greatest border breach in Cold War history The fall of the Berlin Wall the end of the Soviet Union the so called end of history all would flow from what happened next Drawing on dozens of original interviews with those involved Matthew Longo reconstructs this world shaping event and its tumultuous aftermath Revelatory adds a new captivating chapter to the history of the Cold War New Statesman Gripping refreshingly fast paced effortlessly moving the reader from one place and moment to another History Today Evoke s the dramatic events in vivid colour fascinating Katja Hoyer Telegraph A great story this is histo

Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful The Times London 1877 A petite young woman stands before an all male jury about to risk everything She takes a breath and opens her defence Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet Remarkably Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England At a time when women were expected to be obedient Annie s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex censorship and morality A Dirty Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her and chose instead to resist

A beautifully observed journey through the cycle of the year in Anglo Saxon England

A superb book Anybody interested in Scottish history needs to read it Andrew Marr Sunday Times Eighteenth century Scotland is famed for generating many of the enlightened ideas which helped to shape the modern world But there was in the same period another side to the history of the nation Many of Scotland s people were subjected to coercive and sometimes violent change as traditional ways of life were overturned by the rational exploitation of land use The Scottish Clearances is a superb and highly original account of this sometimes terrible process which changed the Lowland countryside forever as it also did more infamously the old society of the Highlands Based on a vast array of original sources this pioneering book is the first to chart this tumultuous saga in one volume with due attention to evictions and loss of land in both north and south of the Highland line In the process old myths are exploded and familiar assumptions undermined With many fascinating details and the sense of an epic human story The Scottish Clearances is an evocative memorial to all whose lives were irreparably changed in the interests of economic efficiency This is a story of forced clearance of the destruction of entire communities and of large scale emigratio

A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year This is a unique and compelling journey through five centuries of the city known as La Serenissima a perfect companion for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm Nowhere else has been depicted by so many great painters in so many diverse styles and moods Venetian views were a speciality of native artists such as Canaletto and Guardi but the city has also been represented by outsiders J M W Turner Claude Monet John Singer Sargent Howard Hodgkin and many more Then there are those who came to look at and write about art The reactions of Henry James George Eliot Richard Wagner and others enrich this tale Nor is the story over Since the advent of the Venice Biennale in the 1890s and the arrival of Peggy Guggenheim in the late 1940s the city has become a shop window for the contemporary art of the whole world and it remains the site of important artistic events In this elegant volume Gayford who has visited Venice countless times since the 1970s covered every Biennale since 1990 and even had portraits of himself exhibited there on several occasions takes us on a visual journey through the ci

A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe A majestic brilliant account of the birth of an empire Spectacularly good PETER FRANKOPAN With its gripping storytelling combined with historical rigour The Sun Rising is just the right kind of zesty treatment a neglected period needs Fresh and fabulous LUCY WORSLEY In 1603 England was on the edge of crisis Queen Elizabeth I had died bringing the Tudor line to an end Enter King James who reached London after an unprecedented procession from Scotland James established a new dynasty on the English throne and the first united kingdom of England Scotland Ireland and Wales was born The Stuarts had arrived But first this new Great Britain had to play catch up England was behind but James s global ambitions began to shift the tide As ships departed London for America Russia Persia India and Japan as the fledgling East India Company began to intertwine ever closer with the crown and as the English began to travel beyond the bounds of their island in greater numbers than ever before the seeds of the future British Empire were sown Long overshadowed by the glory of Elizabeth I and the fatal nadir of Charles I the reig

An informative and thought provoking history The Telegraph A story rich in intrigue diplomacy and personalities New Statesman Offering new perspectives and ideas Guardian Here is the whirligig of history which Shorto captures vividly in this well researched well written sprightly book Literary ReviewIn 1664 England decided to invade the Dutch controlled city of New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island Charles II and his brother the Duke of York had dreams of empire and their arch rivals the Dutch were in the way But Richard Nicolls who led the English flotilla bent on destruction changed his strategy once he began parleying with Peter Stuyvesant the Dutch leader on Manhattan Bristling with vibrant characters Taking Manhattan reveals the founding of New York to be an invention the result not of a violent English takeover but of clever negotiations that led to the fusing of the multiethnic capitalistic society the Dutch had pioneered to the power of the rising English empire But the birth of what might be termed the first modern city is also a story of the brutal dispossession of Native Americans and of the roots of American slavery Based on newly translated sources Taking Manhattan shows how the paradox of New York s origins boundless opportunity c

Walk a day in a Roman s sandals What was it like to live in one of the ancient world s most powerful and bustling cities one that was eight times more densely populated than modern day New York In this entertaining and enlightening guide bestselling historian Philip Matyszak introduces us to 24 characters who lived and worked there In each hour of the day we meet a new character from a senator to a slave girl a gladiator to an astrologer watchmen to washerwomen and discover the fascinating details of their daily lives

A riveting and highly readable account of the Congo massacre peopled by callous monarchs corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes

THE REST IS HISTORY CLUB BOOK OF THE MONTH One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I ve read for years DOMINIC SANDBROOK Highly original and insightful PD SMITH GUARDIAN Thrillingly unique knowledgeable perceptive and profound IAN DUNT The history of Europe told through twenty nine key borders that define the past present and future of our continent Europe s internal borders have rarely been natural they have more often been created by accident or force In Borderlines political historian Lewis Baston journeys along twenty nine key borders from west to east Europe examining how the map of our continent has been redrawn over the last century with varying degrees of success The fingerprints of Napoleon Alexander I Castlereagh Napoleon III and Bismarck are all there but today s map of Europe is mostly the work of the Allies in 1919 and Stalin in 1945 To journey to the centre of the story of Europe Baston takes us to its edges bringing to life the fascinating and often bizarre histories of these border zones We visit Baarle the town broken into thirty fragments by the Netherland Belgium border and stop in Ostritz the eastern German town where Nazis held a rock festival We meander the back lanes of rural Ireland

Agira, recentemente nominato Borgo piu bello dItalia, e un piccolo paese dellentroterra ennese. Conosciuto dai piu anziani come Sanfulippu dAgira e per via di un dolce tipico ovvero la cassatella, in pochi conoscono la storia gloriosa, fin dalla nascita persa ormai nel tempo. I primi abitatori stanziali risalgono infatti a circa ottomila anni addietro. Nonostante il catastrofico terremoto del 1693, resistono, seppur chiuse o abbandonate, tantissime chiese, una parte del castello e intatta, possiede reperti, quadri, pergamene, dipinti, sculture marmoree e in legno di valore inestimabile. La morfologia del paese non e mai cambiata, stradine strette, geometrie greche e latine, arabe e normanne sono ancora li, visibili, in barba al tempo e agli stessi agirensi colpevoli di non averle tutelate abbastanza. Nonostante cio, e ancora oggi uno dei paesi piu belli di Sicilia. Svetta solitario da secoli, unico monte piramidale allorizzonte e sembra attendere che la storia gli dia il giusto merito desiderando, forse, che i fasti di un tempo passato possano un giorno tornare.