NORTH CAUCASUS Introduction Early History in brief Circassians Russo-Circassian war 1763-1864 Circassian Genocide Mountain Jews Russian...

The English Revolution 1688-1689 GM Trevelyan A classic and blessedly short! Devil-Land Clare Jackson A new book which provides...

Modern Wars The World in Conflict Georgia: Rose Revolution 2003 War with Russia 2008 Consequences of war Present situation - concept of...

The New Great Game (or The New Cold War) The Old Great Game now writ large as The New Great Game Borders: geographic, political, and...

Cromwell Antonia Fraser A brilliant and easy to read popular biography The Making of Oliver Cromwell Ronald Hutton A wonderful...

The Modernisation of the Region Globalisation Chinese Tibet - new infrastructure Belt and Road Initiative of China Yet many Tibetans...

Old Countries, New Problems Gerontocracy in USSR The end of The Soviet Union Small Wars in The Caucasus to mid 1990s It all kicks off in...

Cavaliers and Roundheads Christopher Hibbert The English Civil War (First hand accounts) Tristram Hunt Civil War (Vol 3 of...

Chinese Tibet Having emerged from centuries of decline when their claim on Tibet weakened, especially after Britain intervened in 1904,...

Under the Soviet Heel Recap and death of Lenin Caucasian Exiles and Resistance Lenin's and Stalin's views on The Caucasus re Post WW1...

English Reformation The Stripping of the Altars Eamon Duffy A People's Tragedy Eamon Duffy The Voices of Morebath (study of...

NEPAL Part One : Better to die, than be a coward The Gurkhas and relationship with EIC, Indian, and British Army 1816- onwards Part Two:...

Russian Civil War and Caucasian bids for freedom The February 1917 Russian Revolution The October 1917 Bolshevik Revolution In The...

The Black Death *The Black Death Philip Ziegler The Black Death Prof Ole Benedictow The Black Death John Hatcher (the...

A very small contribution for Black History Month, and a little late too. Introduction This is the story of Queen Amina of the northern...

SIKKIM Some introductory facts Some old and ancient history Royal Sikkim 1642-1861/1975 British Sikkim 1861-1947 Indian Sikkim 1947/1975...

World War One unsettles the Region Our story begins today in 1908 Now enter Germany, stage left 1914 War comes to The Caucasus 1914,...

Magna Carta British Library Magna Carta David Carpenter Pocket Magna Carta (Text) Bodleian Library Magna Carta JC Holt Magna...

British Imperial Expansion Introduction & Recap The Great Game: Britain v Russia Sikkim and British Tibet: China and Britain 1720...

Russian Ottoman Wars Recap & Intro First conflict 1568-70 18th century: Russian expansionism and Ottoman decline 19th century: France and...