Epigraphic Evidence is an accessible guide to the responsible use of Greek and Latin inscriptions as sources for ancient history. It introduces the types of historical information supplied by inscriptional texts and the methods with which they can be used. It outlines the limitations as well as the advantages of the different types of evidence covered.

Epigraphic Evidence includes a general introduction, a guide to the arrangement of the standard corpora inscriptions and individual chapters o...

A pioneering comparative history of British, French, Dutch, Belgian, and Portuguese decolonization from the formal ending of empires to the postcolonial European present. Elizabeth Buettner charts the social, cultural, and political impacts of European decolonization, including postcolonial migration, multicultural societies, and divided memories of empires past.

Available for the first time in paperback, The Lessons of History is Will and Ariel Durant's celebrated collection on the themes that define history

A thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing World

Wonderful' JOHN BARTON

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'A stunning love song to the Bible . . . this will be a classic' CHINE MCDONALD

The remarkable story of the most influential book in human history.

The Bible is the world's best-known text. Yet, it is a book that never was - its original form does not exist and probably never did. What we have is the inheritance of generation after generation of Christians who have sought to hea...

An entertaining, alternative portrait of nudity down the ages.

A brand-new life of England’s greatest king from our best-selling medieval historian.

Een onwaarschijnlijk liefdesverhaal ten tijde van het IJzeren Gordijn

In Parallelle levens vertelt Iain Pears het liefdesverhaal van kunsthistorici Larissa Salmina en Francis Haskell, dat in 1962 begon in een Venetiaans restaurant. Beiden hadden op dat moment al onstuimige jaren achter de rug. Larissa overleefde als dochter van een Sovjetofficier de belegering van Leningrad. Francis was de kleinzoon van een Iraakse Jood en voelde zich ontheemd in zijn thuisland Engeland.

Parallelle levens sch...