Peter Furtado

Humanity has always been struck by pestilence and pandemics, from the plagues of ancient Egypt to the pox that ravaged Europe in the Middle Ages, to Covid-19. People living through the crises have always recorded what they saw, what they fe

Revolutions hold a distinct place in the popular imagination. This may be because their rhetoric, such as ‘liberty, fraternity, equality’, articulates aspirations with which we identify; or because we are shocked by the destructive forces u

Following the success of the bestselling Histories of Nations, Peter Furtado brings us 366 telling quotations that offer a window on the past, tying every day in the year to a momentous occasion and bringing it to life with eyewitness accou

Kto był pierwszym brytyjskim premierem? Dlaczego odkrycie kamienia z Rosetty było takie ważne? W którym kraju kobiety uzyskały pierwsze prawa wyborcze? Ile zapłacił Peter Minuit rdzennym mieszkańcom Ameryki za wyspę Manhattan?Odpowiedzi na