This book, originally published in 1963, discusses the place of history in education and general culture, methods of teaching and how to tackle reading.

This work by the eminent historian A. L. Rowse argues that, under Elizabeth I, England began its expansion and eventual enormous impact upon the world.

Presents analytical accounts of the lives, characters, and achievements of homosexual men of genius and prominence in history, society, literature, and the arts, including Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Erasmus, James I, and Francis Bacon ...

Revisits Stonehenge and Avebury, two of the finest prehistoric monuments in Europe, Roman villas, temples and forts, cathedrals, monasteries, castles, palaces and country houses.

This book is a must read for students and scholars of British history.

There are well known difficulties in both Auden’s life and writing, Rowse views these with sympathy and understanding close to the man and seeks to place his work in the perspective of the age in which Auden was a symptomatic and ...