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History to explore, teach and keep
Read it: books and dossiers that follow one argument from beginning to end. Teach it: lessons built for a room with a clock in it, with the answer key and the mark scheme already written. Keep it: a plate for the wall, a shirt, a mug — history you can hold. All of it is made from the same records and the same bibliography as the free articles, and by the same rule: a date without a source does not get printed.
Independent history publishing. Write Sides of History turns historical research into books, teaching resources, maps and carefully selected objects—made for readers, classrooms and collections.
Historical Infographics & Maps
Plates drawn from records, not from impressions. Every dot carries a date, every date carries a source, and what a plate cannot show, it says on its face.
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Map & timeline · 4 files
How Guilds Built Medieval Europe, 1100–1600 — Map & Timeline
Twenty European cities where guild institutions are unusually well documented, each carrying a dated fact and an honest note on how firm that date…
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is, plotted on real coastlines and rivers and joined by six generalised trade corridors. Around the map: the ladder from apprentice to master, the crafts counted where the sources allow it, a timeline of twelve dated turning points, and the historians’ disagreement stated rather than settled. No political border is drawn, because every one of them moved inside these five centuries.
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Books & E-books
Long-form history: one continuous argument, with a chronology, a glossary and a bibliography. Where historians disagree, both readings are stated and attributed.
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E-book · PDF
Roman Empire — The Collected Articles
Sixteen chapters on the empire, rewritten as one narrative rather than assembled from separate articles: how it was governed, how it paid for itself,…
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and how the machinery came apart. With a chronology and a full bibliography.
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Dossier · PDF & EPUB
The Trial of the Knights Templar — Member Dossier
The arrests of 1307, the confessions taken under torture, and the papal bull that dissolved the order in 1312 — reconstructed from the trial records…
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themselves, with a note on which parts of the confessions the sources will and will not support.
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Dossier · PDF
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople — Member Dossier
How a crusade aimed at Egypt ended by sacking the largest Christian city in the world. The debts, the diversions and the decisions of 1204, set out…
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in order, with the Greek and Latin accounts read against each other.
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E-book · PDF
Sworn Craft: How Europe’s Guilds Ran the Economy
Ten chapters, roughly 6,000 words, written as one continuous argument: what a guild actually was, how a man became a master, the cities that banned…
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guilds and prospered anyway, and the two-hundred-year quarrel between historians that will not settle. No primary source is quoted, because translating a statute is itself an argument about meaning; provisions are summarised and the scholarly edition is named.
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E-book · PDF & EPUB
The Principate: How Augustus Invented the Roman Emperor
Book One of The Shape of Roman Power. A focused constitutional history of how Augustus and his successors ruled Rome as autocrats for two centuries…
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while insisting the Republic still governed itself: the settlements of 27 and 23 BC, the Julio-Claudian succession crises, the adoptive “golden century,” and the Crisis of the Third Century that ended it.
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E-book · PDF & EPUB
The Tetrarchy: How Diocletian Rebuilt an Empire by Dividing It
Book Two of The Shape of Roman Power. Diocletian shared supreme power first with one colleague, then with three, building a college of four emperors…
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after fifty years of civil war. Traces his rise, the administrative and currency reforms, the Edict on Maximum Prices, the Great Persecution, and the succession crisis that tore the system apart within a year of his retirement.
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E-book · PDF & EPUB
The Dominate: How Constantine and His Heirs Turned Rome into a Christian Monarchy
Book Three of The Shape of Roman Power, completing the trilogy. Constantine's reunification of the empire, the founding of Constantinople, the…
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Council of Nicaea, the civil wars after his death, Julian the Apostate's twenty-month reign, and Theodosius I's Edict of Thessalonica — the empire's turn to a Christian monarchy.
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Member dossier · PDF
The Medieval Commercial Revolution — Member Dossier (E-book, PDF)
How Europe learned to trade, 950-1350. Six chapters (~3,700 words) from the plough to the plague: the agrarian surplus, the Champagne fairs, the…
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florin and the bill of exchange, the guilds, and the famine and pestilence of 1315-1351. A sixth chapter maps five live disputes where the same thin evidence has produced incompatible readings among serious historians. A4 and US Letter PDFs in the same download.
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Historical Research Datasets
Checked data, row by row. Every row cites the place in the source it rests on, every dataset states its method and its disputed cases, and each edition ships as CSV, XLSX and JSON with a README carrying the full source register. The Caesar dataset is free, so you can see how the records are built before you buy one.
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Free dataset · CC BY 4.0
Caesar's campaigns in Gaul and Britannia, 58-50 BC
All the operations of the Gallic War across nine campaigning seasons, including those Caesar delegated to his legates and reported in a sentence.
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Each row references the book and chapter of the Commentarii where it appears. Free to download and free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 — it is here so you can see exactly how these records are built.
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Research dataset · CSV, XLSX, JSON
Crusader nobility deaths, 1096-1205
Every count, duke, earl and banneret lord known to have died between taking the cross and coming home, classified by what the chronicles actually say killed him.
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Research dataset · CSV, XLSX, JSON
Dutch Golden Age naval battles, 1600-1700
Fleet actions in which a squadron of the Republic, the VOC or the WIC met an enemy fleet of at least five ships, from the Strait of Malacca to the Channel.
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Research dataset · CSV, XLSX, JSON
Prehistoric collective violence before 3000 BCE
Excavated deposits in which at least three people carry perimortem injury attributed to violence, with the contested readings kept in the row rather than resolved.
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Research dataset · CSV, XLSX, JSON
Rote Armee Fraktion attacks, 1970-1998
Attacks claimed in a Kommando statement or attributed to the group, with the generation, the target and the legal outcome in separate columns.
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Research dataset · CSV, XLSX, JSON
Richard I on the Third Crusade, 1190-1192
The operations Richard commanded in person from Vezelay to Acre, with Sicily and Cyprus counted rather than skipped, and Latin and Arabic sources side by side.
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Bundle · five datasets
The complete research dataset bundle (five datasets)
The same five research editions, bought together. One folder per dataset, each with the complete table as CSV, as an XLSX workbook and as JSON with a…
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schema, plus a README carrying the method and the full source register: crusader nobility deaths, Richard I on the Third Crusade, Dutch Golden Age naval battles, prehistoric collective violence and Rote Armee Fraktion attacks. 128 checked rows in total. Nothing is merged and nothing is left out — the bundle is a discount, not a different product. Five separately: EUR 99.75 - together: EUR 79.95 - save EUR 19.80.
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Educational Resources
Built for a room with a clock in it. A teacher edition with a minute-by-minute plan and a mark scheme, a student edition without the answers, in A4 and US Letter.
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Lesson pack · Two lessons · teacher & student editions
Guilds and the Craft Economy — Classroom Pack, ages 14–18
Two lessons of sixty minutes on the institution that decided, for most of seven hundred years, who was allowed to make things.
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The pack teaches the disagreement rather than a verdict: students meet the standard account and the counter-case, and are told which historians hold which view and why the same archive supports both.
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Lesson pack · Two lessons · teacher & student editions
Reading Caesar Against Himself — Classroom Pack on Source Criticism, ages 14–18
Two lessons of sixty minutes on source criticism, worked on a published record rather than on a worksheet.
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The record is free and the class downloads it: 28 of its 35 outcomes are a Roman victory, in a table built entirely out of the account of the commander who won them. What that ratio is evidence of, and what it is not, is the whole pack.
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Collections & Bundles
The same research in more than one form, priced together. Everything in a bundle is generated from one set of records, so the parts agree line for line.
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Bundle · 12 files · EUR 44.85 separately
The Guilds Collection — Map, Classroom Pack and E-book
The map plate, the classroom pack and the dossier together — twelve files for EUR 29.95 instead of EUR 44.85.
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All three are generated from one set of records and one plate, so the chronology in the book is the chronology on the plate is the chronology in the student worksheet.
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Historical Clothing & Gifts
Printed and shipped by our production partner. Wearable and useful things carrying the lines, symbols and sentences we write about.
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Garment-dyed tee · unisex · voordruk, merk op de rug
The Great Heathen Army
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Garment-dyed tee · unisex · voor- en achterdruk
Guilds & Early Capitalism
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Garment-dyed tee · unisex · achterdruk
Valois–Plantagenet Brawl 1337–1453
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How a digital order reaches you
Your files are ready the moment your payment goes through — by e-mail and on your order confirmation page. There is no limit on how often you download them, and they are yours to keep. Nothing digital is shipped and no delivery address is asked for.
How the work is made
Every title here comes out of the same research as the articles, and is held to the same rule: a dated claim carries its source, an approximate date says so, and where historians disagree the page names both and settles neither. Chronology, glossary and bibliography travel with the text.
Printed goods
Clothing, mugs, caps and posters are produced and shipped by our print partner, who handles delivery and returns for those items. Shipping is calculated at checkout from your address.