A History of Bookselling From the Dawn of Print to the 21st Century by Andrew Pettegree reveals the hard graft and innovation ...
The column reached Red Square on 22 August, 84 days after departing, and laid flowers at the Kremlin wall. The riders received the Order of the Red Star; the People’s Commissar for Defence, Kliment ...
The Men of the French Directory, 1795-9 by Biancamaria Fontana sets the record straight on the French Revolution’s great ...
The consequences of Carthusian defiance showed the brutality of the dissolution of the monasteries.
The Rise and Fall of American Europe by Glyn Morgan finds a continent powerless before a capricious United States. Is it too ...
Sailors looking for work in the 19th century risked getting crimped – or shanghaied – and caught in a whirlpool of ...
At the turn of the 1890s he began working on designs. A patent was granted on 31 August 1895. It would be years before he won ...
The Revolutionary Life of George Forster and His Search for Humanity by Andrea Wulf brings the most enlightened of Enlightenment radicals into the mainstream.
Ann Blair is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard University and author of In the Scholar’s Workshop: Hidden Histories of Collaboration and Authorship (Princeton University Press, 2026) ...
In 1943 letters reporting starvation and death in Bengal began to reach Indian soldiers serving the British overseas. Despite colonial censorship, their testimonies revealed the devastating reality of ...
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On 4 August 1626 three ships dropped anchor in the road off the leeward coast of St Christopher (St Kitts) in the Caribbean. A hundred English settlers rowed ashore, come to make their fortunes in ...
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