How do empires rise? Why do they fall? And how have they shaped the world around us today? William
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When King Alfonso VI of León took Toledo from the Arabs in 1085, the history of western christendom
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The extraordinary lives of three Scotsmen - John Henderson, Richard Oswald, and David Livingstone -
In the wake of Culloden, much of Scotland was on its knees. Crippled by defeat and the subsequent ba
Few battles in history have been remembered as powerfully, nor been as mythologised, as Culloden on
In 1688 the Stuart King James II was ousted from the throne by his daughter Mary and her husband Wil
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In the 9th century AD, two years after the Holy Roman Empire was established in Western Christendom,
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The inculcation of Buddhism from India as the state religion in China was enabled by the violent ris
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For a millennium and a half, India was a confident exporter of its diverse civilisation, creating ar
With Richard Nixon now in the White House and not wanting to have his presidency consumed by Vietnam
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Vietnam, or Indochina as it was known, had been under French colonial rule since the nineteenth cent
