He had to deal with criminals who challenged his authority and stole stockfish, livestock, woollen cloth, and boats, not only ...
Weimar: Life on the Edge of Catastrophe by Katja Hoyer explores the city – and citizens – at the heart of Germany’s ill-fated ...
British servants on the Grand Tour, the afterlife of the Tyndale Bible, Scotland’s unmarried mothers, the fall of Jerusalem, African princes in the age of slavery, and more. Plus: reviews, opinion, ...
In the 21st century there has evolved a general consensus about abolition: that Britain turned its back against the slave ...
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 ...
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 ...
If all the world’s a stage, argues Indira Ghose in A Defence of Pretence: Civility and the Theatre in Early Modern England, ...
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