For centuries, Maastricht has been a leading place of pilgrimage, whose Pilgrimage of the Relics, held every seven years, attracts over a hundred and fifty thousand visitors. The veneration of Saint Servatius, the sacred treasures of the Basilica of St. Servatius and the Basilica of Our Lady, and the four extraordinary devotions of Maastricht give the city a unique role in an ancient tradition of pilgrimage. Pilgrimage to Maastricht brings the city’s rich religious history to life with stor...

Arnhem after Arnhem.

Why this reissue? As a child I experienced the first week of the Battle of Arnhem. On September 25, 1944, our family was granted refugee status. For nine months we and many others roamed the country from haystack to farm, from chicken coop to cowshed, from guest house to paper mill. Travelling on farm carts, handcarts and on foot. And as bonus the bombing, shelling and V-1 missiles.

Returning home to the ruins of the city of Arnhem, the burning and smelly waste in the onc...

The geopolitcal relations between the West and Eurasia are going to change drastically the coming years. From Shanghai to Rotterdam a modern infrastructure is being developed by China in a rapid pace. China will connect 2/3 of the world's population on the biggest landmass. It is expected that China will surpass the US in an economical sense and this can lead to economic and serious militairy conflicts because the US doesn't want to play a second fiddle on the worldstage after being a hegemon...

The little-known story of Margaret of Parma, governor, art lover and Italian society figure

Daughter of Charles V, Governor of the Netherlands, a society figure in Italy and a passionate art lover and patron: Margaret of Parma (1522–1586) is a fascinating figure who for a long time was neglected by historians. This richly illustrated publication rehabilitates a woman who played a key role in the Habsburg Netherlands and the turbulent sixteenth century.

Who was Margaret of Parma, as a person...

Peoples who spoke Germanic languages told us in their own words, symbols and artefacts how they experienced people, animals, plants and the world in which they lived. They did this in the form of sagas and legends about gods, elves, giants, dwarfs and other mythological creatures, and in stories about legendary events that made a deep impression on them. Since the Migration Period (c. 300 – 600 AD), these stories have been written down in several Germanic languages, including Old Norse, Old...

'A sparkling debut by an outstanding young historian' PETER FRANKOPAN'This book is a revelation ... both original and important' MISHAL HUSAINA history of modern South Asia told through five partitions that reshaped it.

The first full history of an extraordinary eighteenth-century British entertainment

A vivid history of how Protestantism was spread across the globe, from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century

This volume begins with an overview of the context, course and aftermath of the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre. The documents in Part Two include 'official' sources such as royal edits and magistrates' reports, but also popular songs, polemics, and selections from memoirs and other eye-witness accounts and visual documents.

"Why, having stood up for and held their own place in a once absolutely male world, have women not stood up for their history? A whole world is hidden from us. Their war remains unknown... I want to write the history of that war. A women's history."

In the late 1970s, Svetlana Alexievich set out to write her first book, The Unwomanly Face of War, when she realized that she grew up surrounded by women who had fought in the Second World War but whose stories were absent from official n...