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Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
’Purists argue that colourising black and white photographs is sacrilege, but the world has always been in colour. Truth be told, monochrome is a contrivance. Human experience is always colourful’ The Times.
The epic, harrowing and world-changing story – in words and colourized images – of…
Every good hero needs a villain! Explore the hidden world of magnetic and mysterious villains, often cast aside and misunderstood in tales of mythology and folklore. Through the pages of Queer Villains of Myth and Legend, discover a diverse community of fascinating characters, ranging from seductive and cunning to…
Every good hero needs a villain! Explore the hidden world of magnetic and mysterious villains, often cast aside and misunderstood in tales of mythology and folklore. Through the pages of Queer Villains of Myth and Legend, discover a diverse community of fascinating characters, ranging from seductive and cunning to…
Kategorier: Biografi: allmänt Biografier och litteraturvetenskap Biografier, sanna berättelser, essäer etc.
’A historian who writes as addictively as any page-turning novelist.’ – Observer Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months, and died at the age of just 35, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt was remembered as the acme of…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
The Knights Templar were the wealthiest, most powerful – and most secretive – of the military orders that flourished in the crusading era. Their story – encompassing as it does the greatest international conflict of the Middle Ages, a network of international finance, a swift rise in wealth and…
’A convincing picture of hard men in a hard time, Dan Jones’ fiction rings with the authority of his scholarly history.’ PHILIPPA GREGORY ’Absolutely fabulous. A raucous, swaggering charge through the medieval underworld. I had such a good time reading it that I never wanted it to stop.’…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the politics of…
Ginrenässansen är ett faktum. Dessa aromatiska droppar har gjort en övertygande comeback och har aldrig varit så i ropet som det är nu.
I Gin – skaka, muddla, rör listar spritentusiasten Dan Jones världens bästa gintillverkare och de godaste gindrinkarna. Om du fastnat vid klassikern GT och söker något nytt så kan du…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
Synopsis The Colour of Time spans more than a hundred years of world history from the reign of Queen Victoria and the US Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and beginning of the Space Age. It charts the rise and fall of empires, the achievements of science, industry and the arts, the tragedies of war and the…
Kategorier: Historia och arkeologi
From the preaching of the First Crusade by Pope Urban II in 1095 to the loss of the last crusader outpost in the Levant in 1302-03, and from the taking of Jerusalem from the Fatimids in 1099 to the fall of Acre to the Mamluks in 1291, Crusaders tells a tale soaked in Islamic, Christian and Jewish blood, peopled by…
Under tusen år – mellan romarrikets fall och upptäckten av den nya världen – lades grunden för den västvärld som sedan dess dominerat jordklotet. Framgångsfaktorerna stavades handel, erövringar och kristendom. Makthavarna lyckades hålla fast vid styrka och rikedomar genom att dra till sig – eller…
Kategorier: Historia Historia och arkeologi Historia: särskilda händelser och ämnen Socialhistoria och kulturhistoria
Hidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate.
Be captivated by stories of forbidden love…