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Independent British publisher of non-fiction and fiction. Highlights include James Hawes's The Shortest History of Germany and Hannelore Cayre's The Godmother, winner of the 2020 'Crime Fiction in Translation' Dagger.
Lesley Downer, author of The Shortest History of Japan, will be talking about her book on Tuesday 9 December at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution. @lesleydowner.bsky.social
In person and online tickets available here: hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/the...
In person and online tickets available here: hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/the...
The Shortest History of Japan - HLSI
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November 25, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Lesley Downer, author of The Shortest History of Japan, will be talking about her book on Tuesday 9 December at the Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution. @lesleydowner.bsky.social
In person and online tickets available here: hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/the...
In person and online tickets available here: hlsi.org.uk/whats-on/the...
Nicholas T. Parsons will be talking about his book THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF AUSTRIA at Shakespeare & Co in Vienna on Tuesday 25 November.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Nicholas T. Parsons will be talking about his book THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF AUSTRIA at Shakespeare & Co in Vienna on Tuesday 25 November.
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David Safier's MURDER AT THE CASTLE: A Miss Merkel Mystery
What does Angela Merkel do to occupy herself in her retirement?
Why, she becomes a brilliant amateur sleuth, of course.
Read by Lisa Armytage
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What does Angela Merkel do to occupy herself in her retirement?
Why, she becomes a brilliant amateur sleuth, of course.
Read by Lisa Armytage
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Murder-at...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
David Safier's MURDER AT THE CASTLE: A Miss Merkel Mystery
What does Angela Merkel do to occupy herself in her retirement?
Why, she becomes a brilliant amateur sleuth, of course.
Read by Lisa Armytage
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Murder-at...
What does Angela Merkel do to occupy herself in her retirement?
Why, she becomes a brilliant amateur sleuth, of course.
Read by Lisa Armytage
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Murder-at...
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Excellent audiobooks available from Old Street Publishing:
Just out: Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Middle Ages to the Elizabethans, the Restoration to the Regency
Read by the author
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mortimers...
Just out: Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Middle Ages to the Elizabethans, the Restoration to the Regency
Read by the author
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mortimers...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Excellent audiobooks available from Old Street Publishing:
Just out: Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Middle Ages to the Elizabethans, the Restoration to the Regency
Read by the author
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mortimers...
Just out: Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Middle Ages to the Elizabethans, the Restoration to the Regency
Read by the author
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mortimers...
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Union Hotel, Manchester, 1974, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).
November 19, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Union Hotel, Manchester, 1974, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).
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Ian Mortimer discusses his A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY on the How To Academy podcast. Listen free here: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/ian...
HOW TO PODCAST | Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England
'Historical truffle hound' Ian Mortimer (Sunday Times) finds the most exciting, horrifying, and delightful facts in English history. He joins us to reveal how the country has tranformed from Chaucer's...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Ian Mortimer discusses his A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY on the How To Academy podcast. Listen free here: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/ian...
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The Shortest History of Ancient Rome's Ross King on what the Romans did for the English language. In @thespectator1828.bsky.social Online: www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...
What the Romans did for the English language
Nearly 60 per cent of our modern English vocabulary traces its roots and origins back thousands of years to Ancient Rome
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November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Shortest History of Ancient Rome's Ross King on what the Romans did for the English language. In @thespectator1828.bsky.social Online: www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...
The Shortest History of Ancient Rome's Ross King on what the Romans did for the English language. In @thespectator1828.bsky.social Online: www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...
What the Romans did for the English language
Nearly 60 per cent of our modern English vocabulary traces its roots and origins back thousands of years to Ancient Rome
www.spectator.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Shortest History of Ancient Rome's Ross King on what the Romans did for the English language. In @thespectator1828.bsky.social Online: www.spectator.co.uk/article/what...
Ian Mortimer discusses his A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY on the How To Academy podcast. Listen free here: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/ian...
HOW TO PODCAST | Ian Mortimer - The Time Traveller's Guide to England
'Historical truffle hound' Ian Mortimer (Sunday Times) finds the most exciting, horrifying, and delightful facts in English history. He joins us to reveal how the country has tranformed from Chaucer's...
howtoacademy.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Ian Mortimer discusses his A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY on the How To Academy podcast. Listen free here: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/ian...
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Lancashire was accepted as a county only when a royal exchequer official, in the audit for 1181-2, wrote out a separate parchment under the heading Lancastra quia non erat ei locus in Northumberland: ‘Lancaster, because there is no place for it in Northumberland.’
November 3, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Lancashire was accepted as a county only when a royal exchequer official, in the audit for 1181-2, wrote out a separate parchment under the heading Lancastra quia non erat ei locus in Northumberland: ‘Lancaster, because there is no place for it in Northumberland.’
Sheila Fitzpatrick talks about her book THE DEATH OF STALIN with David Marr on ABC National radio Australia: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
The ghost of Stalin - ABC listen
Josef Stalin left this earthly realm on March 5, 1953. The circumstances of his death were deeply chaotic – his guards and inner circle were too afraid to open the door to his room, and he was found d...
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October 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Sheila Fitzpatrick talks about her book THE DEATH OF STALIN with David Marr on ABC National radio Australia: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Excellent audiobooks available from Old Street Publishing:
Just out: Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Middle Ages to the Elizabethans, the Restoration to the Regency
Read by the author
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mortimers...
Just out: Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Middle Ages to the Elizabethans, the Restoration to the Regency
Read by the author
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mortimers...
Audible
Try Audible free for 30 days! Start listening to best-selling audiobooks, exclusive Originals, and free podcasts with the Audible app.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Excellent audiobooks available from Old Street Publishing:
Just out: Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Middle Ages to the Elizabethans, the Restoration to the Regency
Read by the author
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mortimers...
Just out: Ian Mortimer's MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. From the Middle Ages to the Elizabethans, the Restoration to the Regency
Read by the author
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Mortimers...
Congratulations to Ciaran Saward on his Speakies nomination for Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey. He's also the reader of the equally good but very different THE DEATH OF STALIN by Sheila Fitzpatrick. @thespeakies.bsky.social www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Death...
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Congratulations to Ciaran Saward on his Speakies nomination for Jamie Smart’s Bunny vs Monkey. He's also the reader of the equally good but very different THE DEATH OF STALIN by Sheila Fitzpatrick. @thespeakies.bsky.social www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Death...
Out today, MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. In these sparkling A to Zs, time-travelling historian Ian Mortimer visits four classic periods of English history: the fourteenth century, the Elizabethan age, the Restoration and the Regency.
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Out today, MORTIMER's A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY. In these sparkling A to Zs, time-travelling historian Ian Mortimer visits four classic periods of English history: the fourteenth century, the Elizabethan age, the Restoration and the Regency.
Ross King, author of The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, will be talking about his book at Waterstones Gower St on Monday 20 October. @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/the-s...
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October 16, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Ross King, author of The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, will be talking about his book at Waterstones Gower St on Monday 20 October. @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/the-s...
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By: Kieron Connolly on Sunday, July 6, 2025
By: Kieron Connolly on Sunday, July 6, 2025
What we can learn from the eerie and mysterious worlds we leave behind
Abandoned Places explores the worlds that we’ve left behind – eerie ghost towns, trains half-buried in the sand, forlorn movie palaces.
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By: Kieron Connolly on Sunday, July 6, 2025
By: Kieron Connolly on Sunday, July 6, 2025
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In 1989, on this day, I was in my office in Maynooth 🇮🇪 - in my first job as a Germanist.
This calendar was on my wall.
None of my colleagues anywhere in the world had any idea that within a week, the #DDR would be finished.
This calendar was on my wall.
None of my colleagues anywhere in the world had any idea that within a week, the #DDR would be finished.
October 6, 2025 at 10:36 AM
In 1989, on this day, I was in my office in Maynooth 🇮🇪 - in my first job as a Germanist.
This calendar was on my wall.
None of my colleagues anywhere in the world had any idea that within a week, the #DDR would be finished.
This calendar was on my wall.
None of my colleagues anywhere in the world had any idea that within a week, the #DDR would be finished.
An excellent review of Linda Jaivin's Bombard the Headquarters! by Wanning Sun in Asia Times. '
Jaivin’s narrative flair and sense of drama give new life to what is almost certainly the sorriest period in recent Chinese history...she is a consummate storyteller.'
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Jaivin’s narrative flair and sense of drama give new life to what is almost certainly the sorriest period in recent Chinese history...she is a consummate storyteller.'
asiatimes.com/2025/07/lear...
September 25, 2025 at 4:20 PM
An excellent review of Linda Jaivin's Bombard the Headquarters! by Wanning Sun in Asia Times. '
Jaivin’s narrative flair and sense of drama give new life to what is almost certainly the sorriest period in recent Chinese history...she is a consummate storyteller.'
asiatimes.com/2025/07/lear...
Jaivin’s narrative flair and sense of drama give new life to what is almost certainly the sorriest period in recent Chinese history...she is a consummate storyteller.'
asiatimes.com/2025/07/lear...
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High in Alps on Italian Front was Marmolada glacier battleground. Sep 24 1917 #OTD photos show positions, including barracks and artillery positions, of the Austro-Hungarians Empire carved into mountain peaks
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September 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
High in Alps on Italian Front was Marmolada glacier battleground. Sep 24 1917 #OTD photos show positions, including barracks and artillery positions, of the Austro-Hungarians Empire carved into mountain peaks
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We are thrilled that Lesley Downer's The Shortest History of Japan has been selected as one of Waterstone's non-fiction paperbacks of the year. @waterstones.bsky.social @lesleydowner.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/campaign/pap...
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September 24, 2025 at 1:22 PM
We are thrilled that Lesley Downer's The Shortest History of Japan has been selected as one of Waterstone's non-fiction paperbacks of the year. @waterstones.bsky.social @lesleydowner.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/campaign/pap...
Tickets are still available for in person (and online) for Ian Mortimer's event at the Gloucester History Festival this evening. @ianmortimer.bsky.social
Timetravelling historian Ian Mortimer will be talking about his forthcoming book MORTIMER'S A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY at the Gloucester History Festival this Friday 19 Sept. Pre-publication copies of the book will be on sale. Online tickets are available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...
September 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Tickets are still available for in person (and online) for Ian Mortimer's event at the Gloucester History Festival this evening. @ianmortimer.bsky.social
'[Livy would] be a good BBC historian, popping up and doing documentaries, tramping around fields to tell us where things happened...' The Shortest History of Ancient Rome's Ross King on the best Roman history books. @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
The Best Roman History Books
The best Roman history books, recommended by Ross King, the bestselling author of "The Shortest History of Ancient Rome"
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September 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
'[Livy would] be a good BBC historian, popping up and doing documentaries, tramping around fields to tell us where things happened...' The Shortest History of Ancient Rome's Ross King on the best Roman history books. @fivebooks.com fivebooks.com/best-books/t...
Tickets are now available for Ross King's talk at Waterstones Gower St on Monday 20 October about his excellent new book THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME. Out now in hardback @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/the-s...
The Shortest History of Ancient Rome - an evening with Ross King | Events at Waterstones Bookshops | Waterstones
Events at Waterstones get you closer to the books and authors you admire most. Find information and tickets about The Shortest History of Ancient Rome - an evening with Ross King today.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Tickets are now available for Ross King's talk at Waterstones Gower St on Monday 20 October about his excellent new book THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROME. Out now in hardback @waterstones.bsky.social www.waterstones.com/events/the-s...
'Condensed, lively brevity... an excellent guide to how and why China “went mad”.' MICHAEL EASSON, The Sydney Institute, on Linda Jaivin's BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS! THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA. Out now in hardback. thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/worlds-...
September 17, 2025 at 8:23 AM
'Condensed, lively brevity... an excellent guide to how and why China “went mad”.' MICHAEL EASSON, The Sydney Institute, on Linda Jaivin's BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS! THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION IN CHINA. Out now in hardback. thesydneyinstitute.com.au/blog/worlds-...
Timetravelling historian Ian Mortimer will be talking about his forthcoming book MORTIMER'S A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY at the Gloucester History Festival this Friday 19 Sept. Pre-publication copies of the book will be on sale. Online tickets are available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...
September 16, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Timetravelling historian Ian Mortimer will be talking about his forthcoming book MORTIMER'S A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY at the Gloucester History Festival this Friday 19 Sept. Pre-publication copies of the book will be on sale. Online tickets are available here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...