Back in 5 #01

the coolest history-related highlights of the week and five history books - every Friday in your inbox

Every Friday, you will receive an email with the latest and coolest history-related highlights/stories/links of the week and suggestions of five of the most interesting history books I read or come across.

This is the first edition of this “experiment”, so please send me some feedback in the comments down below. I hope you enjoy this one!

(Many thanks to the wonderful people on Twitter who assisted me in coming up with a name!)

Time capsule

1. Archaeologists in Egypt unearth 4,300-year-old tomb of man who handled his pharaoh’s “secret documents”

2. Volunteers Uncover Rare, 4,800-Year-Old Stone Circle in England

3. Women, the unsung heroes of wartime

4. A court near Pompeii has ordered the return of a treasured classical antiquity that was purchased by the Minneapolis Institute of Art almost four decades ago

5. Chile's desert town built on mummies

History books

• To the Front!: Clara Barton Braves the Battle of Antietam by Claudia Friddell is a powerful tribute to Clara Barton and her heroic efforts during the Civil War's Battle of Antietam

• After the Romanovs: Russian Exiles in Paris from the Belle Époque Through Revolution and War by Helen Rappaport tells the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light

• I recently finished reading The Devil in the White City - another engaging and fascinating book by Erik Larson

• The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore highlights the incredible true story of the women who fought America's Undark danger

Please consider pre-ordering my next book, A Woman’s World, which tells the story of a period of profound and global transformation, through the eyes of the women who made it happen.

Have a great weekend… x

Circa 1929: archaeological work is carried out in the ancient town of Herculaneum, destroyed, along with Pompeii, in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. (Photo by Fox Photos/Getty Images)