LA BIOGRAFÍA DEFINITIVA DEL EMPERADOR FILÓSOFOSe considera a Marco Aurelio (121-180 d. C.) uno de los mejores y más populares emperadores que tuvo Roma. La fascinación por su figura, una de las más documentadas de la Antigüedad, va mucho más allá de su sabiduría como gobernante, gracias a la correspondencia que mantuvo con su tutor Frontón y, sobre todo, a sus  Meditaciones, obra maestra de la filosofía estoica.Con esta biografía, Anthony Birley tr...

Esta es la biografía más exhaustiva que se ha escrito hasta ahora sobre el emperador Adriano, una figura fundamental para entender el devenir político e histórico del Imperio romano. Anthony Birley logra un retrato personal e íntimo de un hombre odiado en el momento de su muerte y enormemente respetado con el paso del tiempo."El carácter de Adriano era desconcertante y contradictorio: severo y jovial, afable y duro, impetuoso y dubitativo, mezquino y generoso, hipócrita y franco, cr...

Descendiente de colonos fenicios asentados en Tripolitania, Septimio Severo es un emperador clave en la evolución de la historia de Roma. Enigmático y muchas veces conflictivo, fue el primer gobernante nacido en África que se puso al frente del Imperio romano, ademas de ser el fundador de la dinastía Severa, y su reinado (193-211 d. C.) supuso un punto de inflexión para sus súbditos. Con sus conocidas capacidades analíticas y divulgadores, Anthony Birley desentraña la trayectoria y la comp...

Acclaimed as a magisterial, classic work, A Social History of English Cricket is an encyclopaedic survey of the game, from its humble origins all the way to modern floodlit finishes. But it is also the story of English culture, mirrored in a sport that has always been a complex repository of our manners, hierarchies and politics. Derek Birley’s survey of the impact on cricket of two world wars, Empire and ‘the English caste system’, will, contends Ian Wooldridge, ‘teach an intelligent chil...

There were vultures circling above us and I was told to keep moving in case they thought I was dead... Travels with a Brompton is a sparkling narrative about the adventures of an English couple and their folding bicycles over nearly 30 years of exploring France. This is a wine-fuelled account of sweaty pedalling and hard-earned freewheeling via cols, war memorials, lavender fields, and vineyards. It is a travel guide for those who long for two-wheeled trips in France and a lively read for ...

The beautiful site the Romans called Vindolanda lies in south-west Northumberland, in the district of Tynedale, more or less half way between the North Sea east of Newcastle and the Irish Sea to the west of Carlisle. It is just within the boundary of the Northumberland National Park, and is a part of the World Heritage Site of Hadrian's Wall. The Wall itself was built on the whinstone ridge a mile to the north, with the fort of Housesteads two miles to the north-east, and that of Great Che...

Exploring the past helps us understand the present and suggests where we might go in the future. It lets us appreciate daily life in other centuries and how decisions made long ago has built and shaped what we often see around us to-day — ancient patterns affect modern lives.Wellington, Birley and the Pyons is based on wide reading, a detailed study of the parish registers — some of them dating from 1538 — and comparing them with more modern census returns...

Zetetic Astronomy: The Earth Not a Globe or simply Earth Not a Globe is a pamplet written in 1881 by Samuel Rowbotham, under the pseudonym "Parallax". It is the basis for most the flat earth theories supported by the Flat Earth Society.Samuel Birley Rowbotham (AKA Parallax) (1816 – 1884), was an English medical doctor and inventor who wrote Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe, based on his decades-long scientific studies of the earth.The flat Earth model is an archaic conc...

EL AMBICIOSO GOBERNANTE QUE MARCÓ UN NUEVO RUMBO PARA EL IMPERIO ROMANOLa ascensión al poder del emperador Adriano (76-138 d. C.) supuso el inicio de un cambio esencial para el Imperio romano. Con él, el territorio conquistado por Roma alcanzó su máxima extensión, pero también bajo su reinado se redujeron notablemente las campañas bélicas y se establecieron fronteras concretas para limitar la expansión militar. Adriano, emperador viajero, también realizó una extraor...

In this, the only biography of Septimius Severus in English, Anthony R. Birley explors how 'Roman' or otherwise this man was and examines his remarkable background and career. Severus was descended from Phoenician settlers in Tripolitania, and his reign, AD 193-211, represents a key point in Roman history. Birley explores what was African and what was Roman in Septimius' background, given that he came from an African city. He asks whether Septimius was a 'typical cosmopolitan bureaucrat', ...

The book is a defense of the flat earth theory, which asserts that the earth is not a globe but rather a flat disk.Rowbotham's book presents a range of arguments and evidence in support of the flat earth theory. He argues that the curvature of the earth cannot be observed, and that the earth appears to be flat when viewed from a distance. He also contends that the existence of gravity can be explained without invoking the concept of a spherical earth.The book was written during a time when...

From the efforts of its first librarian who ensured immigrants could access books in their own languages, to the present day as an active community hub, the library has been responsible for many groundbreaking Canadian firsts.The Regina Public Library implemented the country's first fully automated library system, established the first writer-in-residence program, pioneered English as a Second Language classes, hosted Indigenous storytelling circles, and was instrumental in develop...