Excerpts

Unseen Histories

Excerpt: A Thousand Golden Cities

‘Description of Kabul’ from Bāburnāma by Bābur

December 14^th, 2023

Why did Joseph Stalin decide to invade Finland in 1939?

The Winter War between the Soviet Union and Finland began in late 1939. For Stalin, as Kimmo Rent...

November 30^th, 2023

Excerpt: The Race to the Future

Kassia St Clair on the adventure that accelerated the twentieth century

November 21^st, 2023

Excerpt: Time's Echo by Jeremy Eichler

The Second World War, the Holocaust, and the Music of Remembrance

November 6^th, 2023

Excerpt: His Majesty’s Airship by S.C Gwynne

The Life and Tragic Death of the World's Largest Flying Machine

November 3^rd, 2023

Excerpt: Scarlet Town by Leonora Nattrass

1796. A rigged election. A town at war. A murderer at large.

October 5^th, 2023

Quartet by Leah Broad

How Four Women Changed the Musical World

March 21^st, 2023