In the 1st century BC, a Roman force advanced into Switzerland from Italy. We cannot yet be sure whether these soldiers were…
Andrew Selkirk travels to Madrid to discover more on maritime archaeology and trade…
Richard Hodges writes from Gettysburg, USA…
Chosen by Charles Higham, a Research Professor in the University of Otago, New Zealand, and an Honorary Fellow of St Catharine’s College,…
First-time author Alice Albinia has pluck. Post-2001, near the Pakistani border with Afghanistan, she walks for days on end veiled in a…
Remembering Awatovi describes life in a field camp in Hopi country between 1935 and 1939, during a Harvard University expedition to northern…
This is a dramatic, broad-brush treatment of ten millennia of European prehistory, written on the principle that ‘geography is about chaps, history…
Why did the western half of the Roman Empire fall? Did it fall at all – or was it peacefully transformed into…
He reportedly received death threats in the 1970s for promoting pre-Islamic history in the Kingdom. During a helicopter trip to the site…
With the decline of grammar schools in Britain, Classics seemed to be heading for a fall. Recently however, both in the UK…
Tony Wilmott started with the re-excavation of one amphitheatre, that of Chester. He promptly went on to a re-examination of amphitheatres, sorts…
Viva La Revolucion! is a wonderfully engaging title featuring recipes from Mexico’s best chefs. Cook-books are certainly all the rage at Christmas, but…
Maintaining conservation standards in our towns and villages is essential work but light years away from the stench of cordite in Beirut…