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Nov 14, 2024 | 
standard.co.uk | Dan Jones
As a boxer ages his sparring partners get younger, the game itself gets more desperate.’ So wrote Joyce Carol Oates in On Boxing, her classic meditation on prize fighting. This little book came out in 1987. The following year, Oates published one of the greatest ever profiles of a fighter.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
barnesandnoble.com | Isabelle McConville |Dan Jones |Garrett Graff |Rebecca Nagle
Did you know time travel is real — and you can do it from your own house? From kings to scientists, presidents to real-life heroes and more, read your way through the past and make sense of the world today. History has its eyes on your bookshelf — get your hands on the best history books of 2024. Please enable javascript to add items to the cart. When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day When the Sea Came Alive: An Oral History of D-Day Please enable javascript to add items to the cart.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
waterstones.com | Alice Loxton |Dan Jones |Terry Deary |Amy Jeffs
Posted on 17th October 2024 by Mark Skinner From Alice Roberts to Ben Macintyre, here are the history books we've loved this year.
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Apr 27, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Dan Jones
Between 1529 and 1532, investigators working for the Habsburg king Charles V travelled the kingdom of Spain looking for a small group of women. They went to Najera to track down a lord’s wife, and to Toledo to hunt for a nun. They combed Granada’s streets asking after a former slave who was now married to a crossbow maker. Three decades earlier, all these women had been in England, at the Tudor court of Henry VII. The year then was 1501, and each had worked as an attendant on Catherine of Aragon.
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Oct 13, 2023 | 
standard.co.uk | Dan Jones
Several weeks ago, faced with driving five hours to Cornwall, I decided to drink a can of Prime. It was clear from the start that this was a mistake. Everything about the product annoyed me: the gaudy tin, the moronic typography, the dumb name. The drink itself was a horrid, acrid nothing. It gave me instant indigestion, partly from the rank taste but mostly from the self-loathing I felt at having paid good money for something so awful. My teenage daughter, to whom I started complaining, scoffed.
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Aug 25, 2023 | 
au.news.yahoo.com | Dan Jones
The Rugby World Cup looms. It will be played in the northern hemisphere, which should give teams like England an advantage. Every international side has been working towards this tournament for four years. Elite players know their careers will be judged by it. But just weeks out from the start, England's preparations are disrupted as two of their most important players become unavailable for selection. However, that's not really the big story.
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Jul 14, 2023 | 
au.news.yahoo.com | Dan Jones
After Novak Djokovic won his first Wimbledon title in 2011, he sat down in the All England Club to explain how he had done it. He was only 24, and already had a couple of Grand Slam titles under his belt. But it had taken him seven attempts to wrestle away the golden grass-court trophy which in those days was guarded, dragon-like, by Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal. On a warm Sunday afternoon, Djokovic had beaten Nadal easily — 6-4, 6-1, 1-6, 6-3. He was world No1 for the first time.
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May 15, 2023 | 
hebban.nl | Dan Jones
Voor ‘Vrouwen in kleur’ selecteerden historicus Dan Jones en kunstenares Marina Amaral 200 opmerkelijke vrouwen uit de geschiedenis. Hun oorspronkelijke zwart-witfoto’s, gemaakt tussen 1850 en 1960, zijn door Amaral ingekleurd. Daarmee brengt zij al deze vrouwen dichterbij. Alle foto’s zijn door Dan Jones voorzien van korte biografieën.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
ciekawostkihistoryczne.pl | Marcin Moneta |Frances Gies |Dan Jones |Paweł Stachnik
Kategoria: Średniowiecze
Przez blisko dwa lata wspierani przez Saladyna obrońcy Akki stawiali opór krzyżowcom. Jej zdobycie było poprzedzone jednym z najkrwawszych oblężeń w historii.
Mimo ostrzału z potężnych katapult grube mury twierdzy dzielnie znosiły oblężenie. Ostatecznie jednak, gdy głód i wyczerpanie wdarły się w szeregi Saracenów, szala zwycięstwa zaczęła przechylać się na stronę rycerstwa europejskiego pod wodzą króla Ryszarda Lwie Serce.
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Mar 22, 2023 | 
onet.pl | Dan Jones
Wśród setek templariuszy aresztowanych i przesłuchiwanych w październiku i listopadzie 1307 roku z polecenia Wilhelma z Nogaret i Wilhelma z Paryża nie zabrakło też Jakuba de Molay. Ludzie króla przesłuchali preceptora Cypru, wizytatora Francji Hugona z Pairaud, preceptora Normandii Gotfryda z Charney oraz Jana z Tour, zaufanego doradcy finansowego korony i skarbnika paryskiej Świątyni.
