Time Present and Time Past

During the course of the 11th and 12th Centuries, a powerful new empire emerged in central Asia, that of the Seljuk Turks. Arising in the te...

" But turn away from the light of reason and you catch, out of the corner of your eye, sly movements in the shadows. They are faint, fl...

When I first started this series, I was determined to avoid an undue bias on specifically British history, and some of the works that I migh...

In an extended review of Philip Hensher's The Emperor Waltz published in a recent issue of Prospect Magazine, Sam Sacks writes of ...

Literate civilisation in China has its origins in the Shang Dynasty (c1200 BC) and, remarkably, the written characters of the period are sti...

In strictly chronological terms, this book and the next might be thought to appear on my list in the wrong order, but this post seems to fol...

By the middle of the 4th Century AD, most of England was thoroughly Romanised. Christianity was, by this stage, the official religion of the...