Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village invites reflection on half a century of change.
This invokes many references to architectural details from Homer’s account of Odysseus’ eventual homecoming: the threshold, where the goddess Athena, descending from Olympus, alighted; the entrance ...
It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The ...
Saint Augustine was educated for a Roman world, but it was his time in North Africa that shaped his identity, his faith, and ...
Childbirth in the early modern period was a battleground between midwives and surgeons. The Chamberlen family of surgeons ...
They go low, we go lower. The Rage of Party: How Whig Versus Tory Made Modern Britain by George Owers offers up the origins ...
Chinese astronomers and the European Jesuits who worked alongside them found evidence of China’s antiquity in the heavens.
The National Archives at Kew. National Museum of African American History, part of the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. John ...
The slave trade was an international criminal enterprise. In 1811 an uprising on the slaving ship Amelia off the coast of ...
In the early 1900s the small but influential Zoroastrian community in India contemplated establishing a colony in Iran. Could ...
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On the evening of 21 July 1973, in the quiet Norwegian town of Lillehammer, a couple walked home from the cinema. The woman was seven months pregnant and was walking slowly when a grey Volvo stopped ...
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