He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not only ...
In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...
I n the autumn of 1974 Barrie Quartermain, a Rolls Royce driving, six-foot five private investigator who had recently been on ...
On 25 May 1926 a party of Moroccans arrived at the frontline headquarters of the French army in northern Morocco. They had ...
If all the world’s a stage, argues Indira Ghose in A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England, ...
The discovery of Brazil was an episode in the creation of a Portuguese commercial empire which in less than a hundred years extended to four continents. The Portuguese established West African coastal ...