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 ...
Early Stuart England saw the emergence of mass petitioning. These expressions of collective grievance would advance popular ...
From the printing press to the internet, the spread of information has changed the world. How do we recognise an age defined ...
In 1943 letters reporting starvation and death in Bengal began to reach Indian soldiers serving the British overseas. Despite ...
The final fraudulent Cottingley fairies photograph was taken on 21 August 1920 by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.
The Victorian reading public had access to a vast array of classical literature from Asia in multiple translations by experts ...
A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular by Jonathan Sheehan places bloodletting at the heart of Western thought.
In The Shah’s Party and the Iranian Revolution That Followed Robert Templer reveals the hubristic high point of the Pahlavi regime’s self-regard. When in April 2026 Donald Trump threatened the ...
Redressing the crimes of Pinochet’s regime has been a hard-fought and often contested process. Chile’s current presidency has revealed how easily progress can be reversed. José Antonio Kast is Chile’s ...
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