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The French Revolution is one of the great seismic events of global history. A devouring conflagratio
“The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime”In the ear
“We have been forced to draw the sword”.Following the expiry of Austria’s Ultimatum on Saturday 25th
On the 24th of July 1914, in London, the Liberal British Cabinet met to hear the Foreign Secretary,
On the 20th of July 1914 the heads of state of two great European powers - France and Russia - met i
In the wake of the cataclysmic assassination of Franz Ferdinand on the 28th of June 1914, in Austria
By the end of July 1914, the world hovered on the edge of a cataclysmic world war; Austria was at wa
Archduke Franz Ferdinand has arrived in Sarajevo for a military inspection, alongside his wife, Soph
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, as heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was one of the most important men
Gavrilo Princip, having been sent to school in Sarajevo, has become mixed up with the wrong crowd, a
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to one of the world’s greatest empires, in June
To coincide with the re-release of Dynasty in audiobook, now with Tom Holland himself narrating, we
From the turn of the 20th century, election campaigns - though still replete with politicians behavi
"Good God I am shot! I shall die!"The colourful kaleidoscope of British elections from 1265 to their
The image of Saint George astride his horse, sword and spear in hand, slaying a dragon, is one of th
"When dragons flew to war… everything burned. I do not wish to rule over a kingdom of ash and bone."
To coincide with the re-release of Rubicon in audiobook, now with Tom Holland himself narrating it,
In 972AD a princess of the Byzantine Empire was sent by her uncle, the Roman emperor in Constantinop
"His clothes seemed to melt into each other with the perfection of their cut and the quiet harmony o
In 1870 the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann - a man of remarkable energy, desperately fasci
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