What the ancient world can teach us

What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? Take a journey around the archaeological and cultural remains of Roman Britain with Charlotte Higgins, award-winning author of Greek Myths. 

Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape and British history, in an entirely fresh way. This is a book about the encounter with Roman Britain and about what the idea of ‘Roman Britain’ has meant to those who came after its 400-year stint as a province of Rome. 

Palestine: A Four Thousand Year History is a rich and magisterial work that traces Palestine’s millennia-old heritage, uncovering cultures and societies of astounding depth and complexity that stretch back to the very beginnings of recorded history. 

Starting with the earliest references in Egyptian and Assyrian texts, Nur Masalha explores how Palestine and its Palestinian identity have evolved over thousands of years, from the Bronze Age to the present day.