At the dawning of the British Empire in 1818, the romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley penned a memorable sonnet freighted with foreboding about the ...
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ROLAND WHITE reviews Civilisations: Rise And Fall: BBC turns the history of Rome into a lecture on immigration and equality
BBC series Civilisations Rise And Fall seems to believe its core audience struggles with detail and has the attention span of a hyperactive squirrel.
Have you ever wondered what it felt like to walk through the bustling markets of ancient Rome or stand beneath the towering pyramids of Egypt? These eight carefully selected books offer something ...
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Assyria: the Root of the West
The Assyrian business community also had the first businesswomen and female investors. Generous tax breaks were given to ...
Ukraine’s present struggle is rooted in five centuries of shifting borders and fallen empires. As negotiations loom, leaders must decide how much of Ukrainian land they are willing to bargain away ...
In four episodes, the BBC’s Civilisations series tells the story of the fall of the Romans, Aztecs, Egypt’s Ptolemies and ...
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Civilisations: Rise and Fall review: The BBC's glossy new history doc shows learning lessons from the past is a depressing business
Watching the BBC's new history documentary Civilisations: Rise and Fall (BBC2, Mon, 9pm) brought to mind the great ...
Thinking about getting a Middle Eastern Studies degree? Mehmet Durmaz, a master's student at Harvard is here to tell you why ...
Joseph Masilamany argues that despite COP30's political shortcomings, the Catholic Church provides a necessary moral compass, ...
The third major series in the "Civilisation" strand looks at huge change in Rome, Egypt, Japan and the lost world of the ...
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