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A new book by the journalist Bartle Bull recounts 5,000 years of the country’s past, showing how long before colonial powers ...

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The modern West traces its heritage to Greece and Rome, societies that themselves owed a debt to the cultures that preceded ...

Local historian Jenny Collis spoke about a bygone era as she launched her new book ‘Knutsford, Our Streets Through Time’. Knutsford mayor Cllr Colin Banks introduced her talk at the library on Friday.

Pax' by Tom Holland is a narrative history about the imperial pragmatism that emerged as Ancient Rome reached its demise, ...

Irene Vallejo never imagined she would become a global literary sensation. In 2019, the Spanish author and academic published ...

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