Rome, Zombie City
Surveying history’s various attempts to rehydrate Rome’s ‘desiccated corpse’.
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Bad with the Good
The history of England’s Jewish community in a period of revolution.
In Defence of her Sex
Travelling through time with Christine de Pizan.
Modern Times
How did those living in an age of enlightenment see themselves?
Welsh Enough
A blend of fatalism and hope in 20th century Wales.
Everyday Misery
Returning to the communist ‘cage’ of a childhood in Albania.
Crimes in Africa
Italy’s imperial record of murder and looting, fire and devastation in Ethiopia.
All that Glitters
An extravagantly entertaining account of a medieval ‘theatre state’.
Plato to NATO
The spread of Hellenic ideas from Greece to the world.
Playing Saints
Unmasking an audacious saintly fraud in early modern Naples.