Alexander was the hero of the Greeks. He was King of Macedon, a country lying north of Greece proper. He headed an army of his countrymen, and made an excursion for conquest and glory into Asia. He made himself master of all that quarter of the globe, and reigned over it in Babylon, till he brought himself to an early grave by the excesses into which his boundless prosperity allured him.

His fame rests on his triumphant success in building up for himself so vast an empire, and the admiration ...

A seminal piece of writing about emigration and identity.

St. Frideswyde's was a conventual Church, with a Priory attached, and both were burnt down in 1002, but rebuilt by Ethelred. How much of his handiwork survives in the present structure it is not easy to de-termine; but the Norman builders of the twelfth century effected, at any rate, such a transformation that no suggestion of Saxon architecture is obtruded.

Their work went on for some twenty years, under the supervision of the then Prior, Robert of Cricklade, and the Church was consecrated a...

This book tells the life story of Henri Langie. An ordinary boy from Ronse who achieved extraordinary feats during his military career. Voluntarily joining the forces of the Belgian army during the First World War as a stretcher-bearer, he rose to the rank of Honorary Major shortly after the Second World War when he retired.

Based on his carefully preserved diaries, army archives, and personal photos, we reconstruct Henri's life story and attempt to cast a clear light on the past, while also ...