Ann Oughton
King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa
In 1897 or 1898, Edmund Dane Morel, a British shipping company agent working in Antwerp, noticed discrepancies in the cargoes…
Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland
From abracadabra to superstitions surrounding the yew tree, this comprehensive work details many well known as well as the more…
Dogs of God: Columbus, the Inquisition and the Defeat of the Moors
In 1492, in an effort to free themselves from the yoke of the Vatican, Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain turned…
Revolution, The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720
When James II’s second wife gave birth to a son in 1688, he believed the succession was at last secure,…
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