From the November 2009 Issue Embracing The Everyday 428 AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire By Giusto Traina LR
From the June 2009 Issue Birth Pangs Empires and Barbarians: Migration, Development and the Birth of Europe By Peter Heather LR
From the February 2009 Issue Lighting Up the Dark Ages The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 By Chris Wickham LR
From the April 2012 Issue Europe’s Growing Pains Empires of Faith: The Fall of Rome to the Rise of Islam, 500–700 By Peter Sarris LR
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Nick Harkaway, John le Carré's son, has gone back to the 1960s with a new novel featuring his father's anti-hero, George Smiley.
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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More than a century after they fell out of fashion, why have illustrated novels started to make a comeback?
@AdamCSDouglas investigates.
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