The Tree Hunters is, like Pakenham’s earlier books, beautifully written and enjoyable to read. It radiates pleasure in its subject, which is really the trees themselves. They adorn the gardens of ...

Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus by John Haywood and Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and ...

As so often in study of the past, continuing to ask the question matters more than agreeing upon an answer. Buildings made of ...

In the summer of A.D.66 the priests of the great Temple of Yahweh at Jerusalem suddenly refused to offer the daily sacrifice for the wellbeing of the Emperor and people of Rome. These sacrifices had ...

When Pope Alexander VI issued the Papal Bull of May 23rd, 1493, laying down a line of demarcation, to the east of which Portugal was granted exploring rights, while Spain had the same privilege to the ...

During the second half of the twelfth century, when the realm of Henry II stretched from the Pyrenees to the Orkney Islands, Romanesque sculpture reached its full development in this country; and it ...

On the strength of a military reputation, and by a show of military force, Napoleon achieved supreme power in France, and he maintained that supreme power with the goodwill of the army. When his ...

Since the end of the eighteenth century Egypt has been a vital factor in European power politics. Its value as a bridge between Europe and the East was impressed upon British strategists and the world ...