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...world of human nature. When Greeks explored beyond the Aegean they did so as colonists, building new cities on the model of their homelands. Several centuries later, as her empire started to expand Rome adopted a similar approach, using cities to provide protection and a Roman lifestyle for residents, to extract resources from the provinces and ultimately to establish...

...World War, is set in the tiny Cotswold village of Slad. Family friends and local historians will testify that Lee was not always strictly faithful to the literal truth in the book, blending fact with fiction in his wistful elegy to a disappeared rural world. Nevertheless, these intoxicating and poetic descriptions of youth capture the essence of a life lived one hundred...

...World War plane crashes aren't just of historical interest - they may also be graveyards or bomb sites. How should you approach them?...Video Text The number of crashed planes across the whole of the UK is really extraordinary. Almost four thousand went down on training flights during the course of World War II. That’s a lot of planes, and for every crash site there’s...