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Lancashire - England's most underrated county, argues Chris Moss in the @telegraph.co.uk @traveloguer.bsky.social Chris's LANCASHIRE: Exploring the Historic County that made the Modern World is out in February. www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/desti...

Commuters in Manchester, November 1938. Exchange Station in the background (Getty Images).

In the 1st century AD, it's estimated that 1 in 3 people in the Italian peninsula were enslaved. Ross King, author of The Shortest History of Ancient Rome, interviewed by David Freeman on The Author Archive podcast: davidjohnfreeman.podbean.com/e/ross-king-...

The Shortest History of Japan - HLSI Members: Free, Online or Victoria Hall Non-Members: £10, Online or Victoria Hall Please book, for online link only, by 1pm on the day of the event Court ladies, women warriors and courtesans: powerful...

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...

Here Nicholas picks his five best books on Austria for @fivebooks.com:
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Nicholas T. Parsons will be talking about his book THE SHORTEST HISTORY OF AUSTRIA at Shakespeare & Co in Vienna on Tuesday 25 November.
www.shakespeare.co.at/en/news/the-...

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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
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...

Old Street Publishing is delighted that David Safier's MURDER AT THE CASTLE: A MISS MERKEL MYSTERY has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award.

What does Angela Merkel do to occupy herself in retirement?

She becomes a brilliant super sleuth, of course.

Out now in paperback.

Union Hotel, Manchester, 1974, photo by Martin Parr (Magnum).

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...

Ian Mortimer discusses his A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY on the How To Academy podcast. Listen free here: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/ian...

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

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

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...

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...

Ian Mortimer discusses his A-Zs of ENGLISH HISTORY on the How To Academy podcast. Listen free here: howtoacademy.com/podcasts/ian...

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.’

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...

Sheila Fitzpatrick talks about her book THE DEATH OF STALIN with David Marr on ABC National radio Australia: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

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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
www.audible.co.uk/pd/Murder-at...

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Linda Jaivin's BOMBARD THE HEADQUARTERS! The Cultural Revolution in China
Read by the author
'Jaivin’s narrative flair and sense of drama give new life to what is almost certainly the sorriest period in recent Chinese history'
—Wanning Sun, The Conversation
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Sheila Fitzpatrick's THE DEATH OF STALIN

‘Fascinating… Perhaps the world’s foremost historian of the Soviet era gives us the full darkly comic but grisly details of Stalin’s last days’ CHRISTOPHER HART, THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Death...

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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...

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Out now in hardback and as an audiobook 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...

The Death of Stalin Sheila Fitzpatrick offers a concise account of Joseph Stalin’s rise to supreme power, his tyrannical rule, the black comedy surrounding his death, and his legacy in modern Russia.

Maria Lipman's Foreign Affairs review of Sheila Fitzpatrick's excellent THE DEATH OF STALIN. Out now in hardback. www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/deat...

This is Mortimer at his accessible and witty best. As ever, his aim is not only to bring the past to life but also to illuminate our own times.

How did the button change life in the Middle Ages? If you found yourself at a smart Elizabethan party, should you kiss your hostess on the lips? Why were pistols safer than swords in a duel? And how come Regency Londoners drank so much port?

As he ranges from the Great Plague to the Great Freeze, from Armada to Austen, and from tobacco to toenails, he shines a light into corners of history we never knew were so fascinating – or so revealing of the whole.