Roger S. Bagnall & Gaelle Tallet 
Great Oasis of Egypt [PDF ebook] 
The Kharga and Dakhla Oases in Antiquity

The purpose of Granville Sharpe”s Cases on Slavery is twofold: first, to publish previously unpublished legal materials principally in three important cases in the 18th century on the issue of slave …

On 30 September 1938 Neville Chamberlain flew back to London from his meeting at Munich with the German Chancellor, Adolf Hitler. As he paused on the aircraft steps, he held aloft the piece of paper …

Lara Douds examines the practical functioning and internal political culture of the early Soviet government cabinet, the Council of People”s Commissars (Sovnarkom), under Lenin. This study elucidate …

This work includes a short history of militias in Ireland. This is followed by a more detailed military history of Coleraine and the Killowen areas from 1613 until 2006, a period of almost 400 years. …

The Francoist command in the Spanish Civil War carried out a programme of mass violence from the start of the conflict. Through a combination of death squads and the use of military trials around 150 …

An in-depth history of one of Canada’s World War II internment camps that held both Nazis and anti-Nazis alike. For eighteen months during the Second World War, the Canadian military interned 1, 145 …

Barrels—we rarely acknowledge their importance, but without them we would be missing out on some of the world’s finest beverages—most notably whiskies and wines—and of course for over two thousand ye …

More complex and imposing than any other vehicle in the British emergency services, the fire engine has a long and interesting history. The earliest water pumps had been developed by the eighteenth c …

Three migrations took place to North, Central and South America. The Bering Strait Crossing occurred in the third migration 3, 000 to 5, 000 years ago. The first migration from was Polynesia and the …

Although not a born and bred ‘Islander’, it did not take me long to fall under its spell.The Isle of Dogs is a place of great contrasts and contradictions but is home to thousands and the work destin …