Autor Daisy Dunn

'A brilliant concept, executed with enviable elegance' Lucy WorsleySpanning 3,000 years, from the birth of Minoan Crete to the death of the Julio-Claudian dynasty in Rome, a magisterial new history of the ancient world told, for the very first time,…

Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out.Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads, and…