Gaining some insight into one of the the world’s oldest civilisations via John Keay’s comprehensive history.

A review of Kerry O’Brien’s interview-style biography of former Australian prime minister Paul Keating.

There is surely no greater folly committed by Western Europe than the Crusades of the twelfth century; a toxic mix of economic expansionism and religious zealotry.

Judith Herrin’s Byzantium: The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire takes the reader on an exciting journey through the eastern half of the Roman Empire.

Few questions are left unanswered in Peter H. Wilson’s mighty book about the rise and fall of the Holy Roman Empire.