What the Genoese Could Have Told the Dutch
Nicholas Walton finds similarities in the histories of the Genoese and the Dutch
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New History Books for November 2025
From the North Sea to Mexico, fossil hunting to the Soviet Union
You Are Elizabeth Bennet
The author Emma Campbell Webster invites you to step into a Jane Austen novel
Meet me at the Cemetery Gates
Little spaces, profound stories. Roger Luckhurst tells us about London's hidden cemeteries
Operation Stopgap: The First Shot in America’s War on Drugs
David Tuch pinpoints the beginning of the US war on narcoterrorism
Philip Augustus, Medieval England’s Greatest Enemy
Catherine Hanley considers the legacy of a brilliant leader
What Matters in Jane Austen?
250 years after she was born, Jane Austen continues to outwit her readers, as John Mullan explains
