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In the heart of Picardy, cellar master François Thibault tastes every batch of the spirit he created to ensure the aromas and flavours reflect the quality of the ingredients he uses

Steve Snelling charts the beginnings of what became known as battlefield pilgrimages in the wake of the First World War. 

Zola's masterpiece exposing the inhuman conditions of miners in France in 1860s. This powerful novel follows a young worker who enters a mining community and leads a strike against pay cuts. Despite its defeat, he retains his belief in struggle for a better world.

Flemish art, art of the 15th, 16th, and early 17th centuries in Flanders and in the surrounding regions including Brabant, Hainaut, Picardy, and Artois, known for its vibrant materialism and unsurpassed technical skill. From Hubert and Jan van Eyck through Pieter Bruegel the Elder to Peter Paul

Robert Brenner's influential essay on the origins of capitalism, arguing that the balance of class forces in the countryside was crucial to the rise and dominance of capitalist wage labour relations.

Giovanni di Bernardone: Totally Self-less Christ-like Inspiration for All People(1182-1226)Most Universally Known and Loved SaintAnd a Personal HeroYou ...

2021's most interesting new collections take inspiration from a true tale of cannibalism, Shakespeare's sonnets and Soho in the 1990s

World War I was sparked by the assassination of a prince in Sarajevo 1914 and ended with an armistice signed in a French forest in 1918.

Antique Maps of the Arctic & Antarctic. Gallery of authentic historic & rare maps of the Arctic & Antarctic, North & South Pole & proximal Polar Regions 16th - 19th centuries.

Briton Deignan wins inaugural Paris-Roubaix Femme