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Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Disrupt and Deny by Rory Cormac

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British leaders use spies and Special Forces to interfere in the affairs of others discreetly and deniably. Since 1945, MI6 has spread misin...

Hawkwood series by James McGee

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McGee's historical novels are set during the Regency period, when Britain was at war with Napoleon. His hero, Matthew Hawkwood, is work...

Court of Richard II and Bohemian Culture by Alfred Thomas

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Bohemian culture exercised an important influence on the court of King Richard II, but it has been somewhat overlooked, with previous schola...

A Plague of Informers by Rachel Weil

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Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the center of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the t...

English Convents In Catholic Europe 1600 - 1800 by James E. Kelly

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In 1598, the first English convent to be founded since the dissolution of the monasteries was established in Brussels, followed by a further...

Holy Rulers and Blessed Princesses by Gábor Klaniczay

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Medieval dynasties frequently relied upon the cult of royal saints for legitimacy. After the early medieval emergence of this type of sainth...

Mediaeval Greece by Nicolas Cheetham

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The history of Greece between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the birth of the modern Greek state is for most people an historical blan...

New Book Digs Into the Political History of Potatoes

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From  Modern Farmer : Rebecca Earle ..... food historian and professor at the University of Warwick has spent several years tracing the hist...
Sunday, June 28, 2020

Francine Hirsch - Soviet Contributions in Nuremberg Trials

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From Princeton Alumni Weekly For years, accounts of the Nuremberg Trials have relied on an America-centric view and have ignored the ways...