People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geography, sometimes entirely arbitrary, these lines might often have looked very different if a war or treaty... Zobraziť viac
Built of lightweight wood, powered by two growling Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, impossibly aerodynamic, headspinningly fast and armed to the teeth, the de Havilland Mosquito was the war-winning wonder that should never have existed... Zobraziť viac
A remarkable study in social and cultural change that explains how and why the late antique world (circa 150–750CE) came to differ from "classical civilization." ... Zobraziť viac
Zeinab Badawi, award-winning broadcaster and President of SOAS, tells an epic story of the oldest inhabited continent in the world from an African perspective, for fans of William Dalrymple, David Olusoga and Peter Frankopan... Zobraziť viac
The New York Public Library unveils 500 years of documentation of one of the earth’s most inhospitable regions... Zobraziť viac
Its name means 'centre of the world', and since the dawn of history the Mediterranean Sea has formed the shared horizon of innumerable cultures. Here, history has blurred with legend... Zobraziť viac
Some called it a craze. To others it was a cult. Join prize-winning historian Kathryn Hughes to discover how Britain fell in love with cats and ushered in a new era... Zobraziť viac
A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to leave their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world... Zobraziť viac
A celebration of the printed book, told through the lives of 18 people who took it in radical new directions... Zobraziť viac
'Endlessly captivating' - Tracy Borman'Tantalising' - Gill Hornby'More scandal than Bridgerton's Lady Whistledown' - Helena KellyThe carriages have rolled back into town, cards of invitation are propped up on chimney-pieces, and match-making mamas are plo Zobraziť viac
The generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture... Zobraziť viac
A compelling and masterly account of the D-Day landings from the No. 1 bestselling historian Max Hastings, author of Vietnam and Operation Pedestal... Zobraziť viac
The remarkable true story of Saint Maximilian Kolbe, and the two men in war-torn Japan whose lives he changed forever... Zobraziť viac
An evocative and lyrical history of Cyprus and the Mediterranean... Zobraziť viac
Slovanská knihovna v Praze byla založena roku 1924 ministerstvem zahraničních věcí. Měla vytvářet informační zázemí pro souběžně vznikající Slovanský ústav a současně shromažďovat a... Zobraziť viac
Třetí část projektu někdejších "tajných" cirkulárních instrukcí a informací ministerstva zahraničí z let komunistického režimu - v pořadí již šestý svazek edice - přináší kritické vydání více než 920 dokumentů z let 1981-1985... Zobraziť viac
The West, history tells us, was built on the ideas and values of Ancient Greece and Rome, which disappeared from Europe during the Dark Ages and were then rediscovered by the Renaissance... Zobraziť viac
Čtvrtý díl ediční řady o pomnících první světové války "Tatíčku, vrať se k nám!" je věnován Děčínsku a Ústecku, oblasti s dřívější převahou německy hovořícího obyvatelstva... Zobraziť viac
Dvadsiate štvrté číslo Almanachu Slováci v Poľsku prináša z odborného, časového i tematického hľadiska širokú škálu článkov a štúdií, ktoré pojednávajú o minulosti slovenskej komunity v Poľsku či udalostiach a materiálnej i duchovnej kultúre... Zobraziť viac
Renowned art historian and pioneering feminist Linda Nochlin explores how, from the late eighteenth century, fragmented, mutilated, and fetishized representations of the human body came to constitute a distinctively modern view of the world... Zobraziť viac
