March 2024 Issue Barnaby Crowcroft World for Sale Empire, Incorporated: The Corporations That Built British Colonialism By Philip J Stern LR
December 2007 Issue Leslie Mitchell Keeping an Eye on the Neighbours Three Victories and a Defeat: The Rise and Fall of the First British Empire, 1714–1783 By Brendan Simms LR
December 2011 Issue Kwasi Kwarteng The Brute Facts Britain’s Empire: Resistance, Repression and Revolt By Richard Gott LR
April 2014 Issue Martin Evans Changing of the Guard Fight or Flight: Britain, France, and their Roads from Empire By Martin Thomas LR
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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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