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How did a young housemaid manage to catapult herself into the centre of Henry VIII's divorce, going head-to-head with Anne Boleyn? And why was the sordid truth behind her story erased? Historian Hayley Nolan uncovers the secrets of the most astounding tale in Tudor history. Elizabeth Barton's remarkable rise from poverty to celebrity stunned the Tudor court. As the most notorious influencer of her day, she was adored by the public and had the most formidable Tudor power players under her spell - until she was silenced.

Anne Boleyn is the most notorious of England’s queens, but more famous for her death as an adulterer than for her life. Henry’s second wife and mother of Elizabeth I, Anne, was the first English queen to be publicly executed. Yet what do we know of the achievements and the legacy of her short reign? In The Life and Death of Anne Boleyn: The Most Happy, Eric Ives provides the most detailed and convincing portrait we have of the queen.

The siege of Troy and Odysseus’ long voyage home have inspired many of our most thrilling and radical poets . Henry Power takes us on a surprising journey through the afterlives of these mysterious epics, and the search for the poet who created them. Guiding us through the twists and turns of the Iliad and the Odyssey, Power travels to the places where Homer’s stories have taken root – from the islands of Greece to the Scottish Highlands, the Devon coast to suburban Los Angeles – to trace the footsteps of the poets, lunatics, and lovers haunted by Homer's mythical heroes and monsters.

In June 1593, a ghostly ship drifted into an Irish harbour. Only 16 crewmen remained alive, and the deck was littered with the dead. This was the melancholy homecoming of the ship Desire, one of a fleet of five that had left England two years before, fuelled by dreams of Spanish gold and the glory of exploring the globe. Cavendish had returned triumphant from circumnavigating the world in record time, having taken a Manila galleon and secured the largest haul of treasure ever to fall into English hands.

In einem historischen Meisterwerk erzählt er eine verwickelte Geschichte voller Widersprüche, die mit der Unterstützung der bolschewistischen Revolution durch das kaiserliche Deutschland beginnt und 1941 mit dem Überfall auf die Sowjetunion endet. Wenn ein kurzfristiger Vorteil lockte, waren beide Seiten zu jeder Prinzipienlosigkeit bereit.

How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history. Unique among former Roman citizens in Western Europe, the Britons established long-lived kingdoms, resisting 'barbarian' political takeover for centuries. Archaeological evidence, along with re-analysis of the few existing texts, reveals an unexpectedly sophisticated society, connected to a wider international network of trade and cultural contacts than might until recently have seemed imaginable.

Discover the Trojan War as you've never experienced it before—through the eyes of those who lived, loved, and died in history's most legendary conflict. From a wedding snub that sparked divine fury to the wooden horse that ended an empire, this masterful retelling brings ancient Troy blazingly to life for modern listeners.

In Domesday, Max Adams retreads the path taken in 1085 by King William I's agents, taking us on foot through the very sites covered by one of the most iconic documents of English history. Adams explores this unique portrait of a land and its people, bringing the past into intimate contact with the present.

The Battle of Waterloo was one of the most dramatic and decisive battles ever fought. It marked the bloody end of the long struggle between the new ideals of the French Revolution and the established orders that had begun in 1793, and ushered in a century of peace in Europe. For such a massively important battle, Waterloo is all too often misunderstood, probably because the combatants have concentrated on the role of their own troops.

Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitious Operation Market-Garden. Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to and across the lower Rhine by the British XXX Corps along a single road already dominated by airborne troops. Their objective along this road was the bridge at Arnhem, the target of British and Polish airborne troops. Once XXX Corps had reached this bridge it would then make for the German industrial area of the Ruhr.

With Germany being pushed back across Europe the Allied forces looked to press their advantage with Operation Market-Garden, a massive airborne assault that, if successful, could have shortened the war in the west considerably. The ground advance consisted of an armoured thrust by the British XXX Corps, while the US 82nd and 101st US Airborne Divisions secured the bridges at Eindhoven and Nijmegen and the British 1st Airborne Division and Polish 1st Airborne Brigade were tasked with seizing the final bridge at Arnhem to secure the route. What they did not realise was that the 9. SS and 10.

This is the story of what could happen next. What If Reform Wins is a chilling and deeply researched scenario that takes us day-by-day, minute-by-minute through a world in which Reform has the opportunity to put their policies into practice, from deporting 600,000 people to leaving the ECHR, abandoning net zero and ending the BBC's license fee. How will people fight back against mass deportations and fracking? And will this self-described 'ill-disciplined pirate ship' survive the rigors of government?

El nuevo libro de Javier Cercas relata los últimos 50 años de la historia de España, que son los del diario El País, a través de un recorrido personal y una lúcida reflexión sobre los vínculos entre periodismo, literatura, política y libertades. El diario El País salió a la calle el 4 de mayo de 1976, menos de seis meses después de la muerte de Franco, cuando el camino a la democracia apenas empezaba a atisbarse.

Power does not survive by force alone. It survives by meaning, structure, and habit. When Constantine rose to power, Rome was collapsing under the weight of its own instability. Emperors came and went through civil war. Authority was temporary. Violence had become the empire's method of succession. Victory solved nothing—because nothing lasted.

Am 19. Juli 1936 besteigt General Francisco Franco ein Flugzeug in Richtung Tetuán, um sich einem Aufstand gegen die spanische Republik anzuschließen. Spontan brechen mutige Freiwillige aus mehr als fünfzig Ländern auf, um Spanien gegen den faschistischen Umsturz zu verteidigen. Spontan beschließen Zehntausende Freiwillige aus aller Welt, Spanien im heraufziehenden Bürgerkrieg beizustehen. Es sind Künstler, Reporterinnen, Intellektuelle und Verfolgte, es sind Helfer und Krankenschwestern, Idealistinnen und Abenteurer.

¿Por qué corremos? Todo el esfuerzo y el dolor, ¿con qué fin? ¿A qué obedece este amor por la tonificación muscular, la velocidad y el sudor? Los deportistas de la Grecia clásica fueron los primeros en plantearse estas preguntas, los primeros en suspender la guerra, el trabajo o la política para disfrutar de celebraciones públicas de las proezas atléticas, como en los célebres Juegos Olímpicos. Inventaron el deporte y también fueron los primeros en comprender cómo la actividad física se relaciona con nuestro bienestar mental.

Ancient Greece for Beginners: A History Audiobook That Doesn’t Put You to SleepIf you’ve ever zoned out during a history lecture or rolled your eyes at yet another shout of “Sparta!”, you're not alone. This audiobook is here to wake up the past. It takes you on a fast-paced, eye-opening journey through one of the most fascinating civilizations in history with clear, compelling storytelling that actually makes sense.

In Heads Will Roll, JJ tells the story of the French Revolution. This isn’t a sanitized timeline or a romanticized uprising. It’s a decade-long breakdown told from the inside, from hungry crowds to locked chambers and Enlightenment salons to execution carts. You’ll follow the fall of Louis XVI, the rise of Robespierre, the death of moderation, and the slow, grinding collapse of a world that thought it would last forever. You’ll understand why this moment changed everything and why it never really ended. This is the French Revolution, told straight.

Spanning seven decades and with over 150 new interviews, including Richard Hawley, Arctic Monkeys, Self Esteem, ABC, Pulp, Def Leppard, The Human League, Toddla T, Cabaret Voltaire, Warp Records, Clock DVA, Heaven 17 and many more From dazzling electronic futurism to pioneering post-punk, via...

Brought to you by Penguin. It has never been more important to understand the extraordinarily complex and tightly meshed history, geography, culture and politics of the European continent. As confidence in the post-war world order led by America and policed by NATO is shaken, as the US Trump...