In this follow up to his popular Visiting China's Past, Professor Robert Thorp continues his guided tour of China's significant historical and cultural sites, here focusing on the city of Beijing and
One of the great breakthroughs in Chinese studies in the early twentieth century was the archaeological identification of the earliest, fully historical dynasty of kings, the Shang (ca. 1300-1050 B.C.
Excavations in Syon Park, Brentford, have made a substantial contribution to our knowledge of this Roman rural settlement on the London–Silchester road, by a ford across the Thames.
The movie Jeremiah Johnson introduced millions to the legendary mountain man, John Johnson. The real Johnson was a far cry from the Redford version. Standing 6’2" in his stocking feet and wei
This book explores the effect that textbooks have on understanding the socially disputed period of the Cold War, and highlights how memory is negotiated alongside teacher narratives within classrooms
