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Comment "penser" Auschwitz quand on en réchappa ? Que faire du ressentiment ? L’esprit peut-il sortir indemne de la confrontation avec l’univers concentrationnaire ? La foi est-elle indispensable à l

Makes the case for Annie Besant as a truly eminent Victorian as brilliant and fearless as she was beautiful The Times London 1877 A petite young woman stands before an all male jury about to risk everything She takes a breath and opens her defence Annie Besant and her confidant Charles Bradlaugh are on trial for the crime of publishing a birth control pamphlet Remarkably Annie is defending herself against obscenity charges 45 years before women can practice law in England At a time when women were expected to be obedient Annie s fearless voice was a sensation and spotlighted issues of sex censorship and morality A Dirty Filthy Book tells the gripping story of a little known pioneer who refused to accept the role that the establishment assigned her and chose instead to resist

THE REST IS HISTORY CLUB BOOK OF THE MONTH One of the most engaging and fascinating histories of Europe I ve read for years DOMINIC SANDBROOK Highly original and insightful PD SMITH GUARDIAN Thrillingly unique knowledgeable perceptive and profound IAN DUNT The history of Europe told through twenty nine key borders that define the past present and future of our continent Europe s internal borders have rarely been natural they have more often been created by accident or force In Borderlines political historian Lewis Baston journeys along twenty nine key borders from west to east Europe examining how the map of our continent has been redrawn over the last century with varying degrees of success The fingerprints of Napoleon Alexander I Castlereagh Napoleon III and Bismarck are all there but today s map of Europe is mostly the work of the Allies in 1919 and Stalin in 1945 To journey to the centre of the story of Europe Baston takes us to its edges bringing to life the fascinating and often bizarre histories of these border zones We visit Baarle the town broken into thirty fragments by the Netherland Belgium border and stop in Ostritz the eastern German town where Nazis held a rock festival We meander the back lanes of rural Ireland

WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2008 The world s most controversial classicist debunks our movie style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy Laura Silverman Daily MailThe ruins of Pompeii buried by an explosion of Vesuvius in 79 CE offer the best evidence we have of everyday life in the Roman empire This remarkable book rises to the challenge of making sense of those remains as well as exploding many myths the very date of the eruption probably a few months later than usually thought or the hygiene of the baths which must have been hotbeds of germs or the legendary number of brothels most likely only one or the massive death count maybe less than ten per cent of the population An extraordinary and involving portrait of an ancient town its life and its continuing re discovery by Britain s favourite classicist

Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize A dozen pages in I realized that I had been waiting for much of my life to read this extraordinary book Annie ProulxA way of life that once encompassed most of humanity is vanishing in one of the greatest transformations of our time the eclipse of the rural world by the urban In this new history of peasantry Patrick Joyce tells the story of this lost world and its people In contrast to the usual insulting stereotypes we discover a rich and complex culture traditions songs celebrations and revolts across Europe from the plains of Poland to the farmsteads and villages of Italy and Ireland through the nineteenth century to the present day Into this passionate history written with exquisite care Joyce weaves remarkable individual stories including those of his own Irish family and looks at how peasant life has been remembered and misremembered in contemporary culture This is a people whose voice is vastly underrepresented in human history Yet for Joyce we are all the children of peasants who must respect the experience of our ancestors This is particularly pressing when our knowledge of the land is being lost to climate crisis and the rise of industrial agriculture Enlightening timely and vital thi

A Sunday Times Art Book of the Year This is a unique and compelling journey through five centuries of the city known as La Serenissima a perfect companion for both lovers of Venice and lovers of its art Venice was a major centre of art in the Renaissance the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm Nowhere else has been depicted by so many great painters in so many diverse styles and moods Venetian views were a speciality of native artists such as Canaletto and Guardi but the city has also been represented by outsiders J M W Turner Claude Monet John Singer Sargent Howard Hodgkin and many more Then there are those who came to look at and write about art The reactions of Henry James George Eliot Richard Wagner and others enrich this tale Nor is the story over Since the advent of the Venice Biennale in the 1890s and the arrival of Peggy Guggenheim in the late 1940s the city has become a shop window for the contemporary art of the whole world and it remains the site of important artistic events In this elegant volume Gayford who has visited Venice countless times since the 1970s covered every Biennale since 1990 and even had portraits of himself exhibited there on several occasions takes us on a visual journey through the ci

Sumption is that rare and precious thing a serious decent honest thinker and one of our finest historians Dan Jones Sunday Times Gripping and eminently readable a compelling justification for the enduring value of historical narrative The Times Unsurpassed and probably unsurpassable Daily Telegraph In this final volume of his epic history of the Hundred Years War Jonathan Sumption tells the story of the collapse of the English dream of conquest from the opening years of the reign of Henry VI until the loss of all of England s continental dominions except Calais thirty years later This sudden reversal of fortune was a seminal event in the history of the two principal nation states of western Europe ending four centuries of the English dynasty s presence in France and separating two countries whose fortunes had once been closely intertwined creating a new sense of national identity in both The legacy of these events would influence their divergent fortunes for centuries to come Behind the clash of arms stood some of the most remarkable personalities of the age the Duke of Bedford the English Regent who ruled much of France Charles VII of France who patiently rebuilt his kingdom after the disasters of his early years the captains popul

A dazzling tale brilliantly told Peter Frankopan Marries the intrigue of Europe s most powerful royal courts with the globe trotting thrill of adventure and discovery Sunday Telegraph 5 review DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY in the autumn of 1550 a little known public servant in the Venetian government Giovambattista Ramusio anonymously published Navigationi et Viaggi Journeys and Navigations Containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans from the diaries of Marco Polo to detailed reports from the Muslim diplomat Leo Africanus it became the basis of the world map we still use today In an enthralling narrative This Earthly Globe brings to life the man who used all his political skill to democratize knowledge and show how the world was much larger than anyone previously imagined and in doing so chronicles the birth of modern geography