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Aquesta immersió ràpida presenta als lectors un dels esdeveniments mes dramàtics i influents de la historia mundial, i que va obrir la porta a la implementació “revolucions liberals” a tot el món en

Alford triumphs in recreating the historical moment. By immersing himself in Cecils vast archive, he draws the reader deep into his working environment, capturing the closeness of his study and the chaos of the court this is turn-of-century England as it really was dangerous, gritty, on a knife edge.' - The Times 'A compelling portrait of a pivotal, yet often neglected, figure in Elizabethan and Jacobean politics. Alford's account of Robert Cecil and his spy network bristles with narrative energy and succinctly wise judgement.' - Peter Marshall From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor spy-masterRobert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history.Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor and enemies both external and internal threatened to destroy England as a Protestant state, most spectacularly with the Spanish Armada and the Gunpowder Plot. Cecil stood at the heart of the Tudor and then Stuart state, a vital figure in managing the succession from Elizabeth I to James I & VI, warding off military and religious threats and steering the decisions of two very different but equally wilful and hard-to-manage monarchs. The promising son of Queen Elizabeths chief minister Lord Burghley, for Cecil there was no choice but politics, and he became supremely skilled in the arts of power, making many rivals and enemies.All His Spies is a wonderfully engaging and original work of history. Many readers are familiar with the great events of this tumultuous time, but All His Spies shows how easily these dramas could have turned out very differently. Cecils sureness of purpose, his espionage network and good luck all conspired to keep England uninvaded and to create a new British monarchy which has endured to the present day.

Aquest primer volum de l’Obra dispersa de l’historiador i ciutadà gironí (1911-1973) Santiago Sobrequés reuneix un seguit d’estudis erudits sobre el passat català i de col·laboracions periodístiques

En plena agonia del dictador Francisco Franco, el setembre de 1975 es publicà la primera i única edició del present llibre que avui presentem amb un estudi introductori de l?escriptor Vicenç Villator

The early sixties in Britain told as only David Kynaston ('the most entertaining historian alive' Spectator) can. Running from 1962 to 1965, A Northern Wind is the anticipated new volume in the landmark Tales of a New Jerusalem series. 'From Daleks and dingy tower blocks to nuclear threats, this addictively readable book charts dizzying change .. . Sometimes moving, often comic, always fascinating'DOMINIC SANDBROOK, SUNDAY TIMESHow much can change in two and a half years? In the case of Britain in the Sixties, the answer is: almost everything.From the seismic coming of Liverpool's the Beatles to a sex scandal that rocked the Tory government to the arrival at No 10 of Harold Wilson, a Yorkshireman utterly different from his Old Etonian predecessors. A Northern Wind, the keenly anticipated next instalment of David Kynastons acclaimed Tales of a New Jerusalem series, brings to vivid life the period between October 1962 and February 1965. Drawing upon an unparalleled array of diaries, newspapers and first-hand recollections, Kynastons masterful storytelling refreshes familiar events the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Big Freeze, the assassination of JFK, the funeral of Winston Churchill while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history.Major themes complement the compelling narrative: an anti-Establishment mood epitomised by the BBCs controversial That Was The Week That Was; a welfare state only slowly becoming more responsive to the individual needs of its users; and the rise of consumer culture, as Habitat arrived and shopping centres like Birminghams Bull Ring proliferated. Multi-voiced, multi-dimensional and immersive, Tales of a New Jerusalem has transformed how we see and understand post-war Britain. A Northern Wind continues the journey.

From Jon Sopel bestselling author and presenter of hit podcast The News Agents comes an incisive examination of post Brexit Britain and what it means for our future I like and trust Jon Sopel and you should too JOE LYCETT A thrilling nerve wracking book You couldn t make the last ten years up thanks to Jon Sopel you don t have to PETER FRANKOPAN A hugely entertaining and quite traumatic rollercoaster ARMANDO IANNUCCI Acute and unflinching Sopel deploys his foreign correspondent skills on home shores as well as far ones and brings together the story of a tumultuous few years on both sides of the Atlantic MISHAL HUSAINReturning to the UK in some ways has been disconcerting or maybe discombobulating would be a better word It is after all my home it is where I grew up a country I love and am proud of But either it s changed or I have Maybe both It just feels like a strange land At the beginning of 2022 after eight years of political reporting in the US Jon Sopel returned home to the UK and having spent almost a third of his career abroad he found a very different place to the one he left In Strangeland his first book since launching the global hit podcast The News Agents he asks What is the Britain he s come home to In the US Jon was the ou

An essential guide to one of the world s most remarkable and often misunderstood cities by the author of Why the Dutch Are Different When Ben Coates injures his leg and needs to rebuild his strength by walking he finds himself presented with an exciting opportunity to rediscover the city he has been working in for over a decade at a slower pace He devises ten walks each demonstrating a different chapter of Amsterdam s history from its humble beginnings as a small fishing community through two Golden Ages fuelled by the growth of the Dutch colonial empire two world wars and countless reinventions Join Coates as he meanders past beautiful townhouses and glittering canals dances at Pride celebrations witnesses the King s apology at Keti Koti attends a WW2 memorial gets high at a coffee shop walks through the red light district and gazes in awe at Rembrandt paintings all the while illuminating modern Amsterdam by explaining its past Blending travelogue and quirky history The Invention of Amsterdam is an entertaining and sharply observed portrait of a fascinating and complicated city

A Times Best Art Book of the Year 2024 A riot of a book Country Life s Books of the Year 2024The modern art market was born on a single night On 15 October 1958 Sotheby s of Bond Street staged an event sale of Impressionist paintings from the collection of an American banker Erwin Goldschmidt three Manets two Cezannes one Van Gogh and a Renoir Movie stars and other celebrities attended in black tie and saw the seven lots go for 781 000 at the time the highest price for a single art sale Overnight London became the world centre of the art market and Sotheby s an international auction house The event signalled a shift in power from dealers to auctioneers and pointed the way for Impressionist paintings to dominate the market for the next forty years In this climate Sotheby s and Christie s became a great business duopoly as aggressive dominant and competitive in the field of art sales as Pepsi and Coca Cola were in soft drinks The resulting expansion of the market was accompanied by rocketing prices colourful scandals and legal dramas Over the decades London transformed itself from a place of old master sales to a revitalised centre of contemporary art a process crowned by the opening of Tate Modern in 2000 James Stourton tells the story of th

Ma non pezzi di costume. Chi se ne frega del costume? Lascia che se ne occupino quelli che fanno le colonnine sul Mondo (Italo Calvino a Leonardo Sciascia, 25 novembre 1957) Ci sono molti modi per raccontare il Novecento: e il secolo della violenza; il secolo delle masse, delle religioni politiche, degli esperimenti totalitari, del welfare state, della democrazia. Ma esiste anche - cosi visibile da passare quasi inosservato - un Novecento effimero nel quale cio che cambia e la vita privata delle italiane e degli italiani: il loro modo di pensarsi, vestirsi, vivere il corpo e la sessualita, organizzare la propria vita, i propri consumi, le case, i viaggi, le citta. Attraverso il prisma delle cronache di costume, questo libro descrive appunto mutamenti e permanenze quotidiane dagli ultimi anni dell'Ottocento fino alla grande trasformazione degli anni Sessanta del Novecento. La storia pubblica delle nostre storie private.

A groundbreaking new history of the wars of the Ottoman Expansion a truly global conflagration that crisscrossed three continents and ultimately defined the borders and future of a modern Europe The determined attempt to thwart Ottoman dominance was fought across five theaters from the Balkans to the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean from Persia to Russia This intercontinental melee is expertly re told in this fascinating new history by historian Si Sheppard But this is not the story of a clash of civilizations between East and West as you might assume Europe was not united against the Turks the scandal of the age was the alliance between King Francis I of France and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent Meanwhile the resistance of the Saadi dynasty of Morocco to Ottoman encroachment played a critical role in denying Constantinople direct access to the Atlantic Ocean By the same token though religious imperatives were critical to the motivations of all the key actors involved these in no way fell neatly along the Christian Muslim divide Crescent Dawn expertly shows how the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V desired nothing more than to eradicate the Protestant heresy metastasizing throughout his domains but the threat of Turkish invasion forced him to stay his hand

Adam Zamoyski first wrote his history of Poland two years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. This substantially revised and updated edition sets the Soviet era in the context of the rise, fall and remarkable rebirth of an indomitable nation.In 1797, Russia, Prussia and Austria divided Poland among themselves, rewriting Polish history to show that they had brought much-needed civilisation to a primitive backwater. But the country they wiped off the map had been one of Europes largest and most richly varied, born of diverse cultural traditions and one of the boldest constitutional experiments ever attempted. Its destruction ultimately led to two world wars and the Cold War.

A panoramic history of the arrival of the Stuarts and how the reign of King James I saw England reach new corners of the globe A majestic brilliant account of the birth of an empire Spectacularly good PETER FRANKOPAN With its gripping storytelling combined with historical rigour The Sun Rising is just the right kind of zesty treatment a neglected period needs Fresh and fabulous LUCY WORSLEY In 1603 England was on the edge of crisis Queen Elizabeth I had died bringing the Tudor line to an end Enter King James who reached London after an unprecedented procession from Scotland James established a new dynasty on the English throne and the first united kingdom of England Scotland Ireland and Wales was born The Stuarts had arrived But first this new Great Britain had to play catch up England was behind but James s global ambitions began to shift the tide As ships departed London for America Russia Persia India and Japan as the fledgling East India Company began to intertwine ever closer with the crown and as the English began to travel beyond the bounds of their island in greater numbers than ever before the seeds of the future British Empire were sown Long overshadowed by the glory of Elizabeth I and the fatal nadir of Charles I the reig

From the River Thames to Westminster Abbey, this photographic exploration of London offers a unique combination of historic interest and contemporary beauty. The book features dozens of fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today.

Para muchos de nosotros hablar de Irlanda supone trasladarnos a un lugar cercano. Podríamos pensar que tenemos poco en común con un país donde la lluvia está siempre presente, donde se hablan lenguas que nada tienen que ver con las nuestras, o donde el paisaje es fundamentalmente verde y ondulado. Nada mas lejos de la realidad. Nuestra relacion con Irlanda se remonta a la prehistoria y, con diversa incidencia a lo largo del tiempo, continua en el presente. Ademas, somos muchos los que, por diversos motivos, hemos viajado a esas tierras y en la mayoria de los casos las sensaciones que nos llevamos de alli crean la necesidad de volver en algun momento. Esta historia de Irlanda, en cierta manera, pretende que esa vuelta la podamos realizar desde el salon de nuestra casa y que seamos capaces de hacer un recorrido global por todas las etapas que han jalonado el devenir del pueblo irlandes a lo largo de los siglos para, en caso de regresar alguna vez, entender mejor el porque de este pais, de su division politica, de la presencia de varias tradiciones culturales. En otro orden de cosas, cuando hablamos de historia suelen venirnos a la memoria importantes batallas, largas listas de reyes, o nombres de grandes estadistas. No se puede negar que esa gran historia esta ahi, pero si queremos ser justos con ella, tendriamos que mirar, ademas, a otros protagonistas que de manera mucho mas anonima la construyen. Somos nosotros, los ciudadanos de a pie, quienes tambien hacemos historia. Son los diversos colectivos de una sociedad quienes cimientan y protagonizan la historia de los pueblos. Para paliar dicha injusticia, esta obra en la medida en que las fuentes lo permiten intenta dar a conocer el modo de vida y la idiosincrasia de los habitantes de la isla.

The Kingdom of Portugal was created as a by-product of the Christian Reconquest of Hispania. With no geographical raison d'être and no obvious roots in its Roman, Germanic, or Islamic pasts, it for long remained a small, struggling realm on Europe's outer fringe. Then, in the early fifteenth century, this unlikely springboard for Western expansion suddenly began to accumulate an empire of its own, eventually extending more than halfway around the globe. A History of Portugal and the Portuguese Empire, drawing particularly on historical scholarship postdating the 1974 Portuguese Revolution, offers readers a comprehensive overview and reinterpretation of how all this happened - the first such account to appear in English for more than a generation. Volume 1 concerns the history of Portugal itself from pre-Roman times to the climactic French invasion of 1807, whilst this volume traces the history of the Portuguese overseas empire.