The idea that a battle might alter the course of history, though first popularised in the 19th century, is not without foundation. For as one writer remarked a generation after 1066, ‘French customs ...
Strikingly Similar: Plagiarism and Appropriation from Chaucer to Chatbots by Roger Kreuz finds that copyright isn’t always a ...
The Cancelled Prime Minister: The Extraordinary Rise and Tragic Fall of Ramsay MacDonald by Walter Reid finds the romance behind Labour’s great betrayer.
On Lady Day, 25 March, some 800 villagers were due to take part in the centuries-old annual custom of the Tichborne Dole, in which a gift of flour was distributed by the local landed family, the ...
Strategically important during the Second World War, US soldiers could not wait to leave Greenland. I n April 1941, as it moved closer to direct involvement in the Second World War, the United States ...
Edward Lee was born in Kent in 1482 and lived a rather unremarkable life as a priest until the age of 35. In 1517, however, he made the decision to visit the small university town of Louvain, a few ...
As Malaya headed towards independence, the spectre of identity politics loomed. What place for cosmopolitan Penang and its ...
During the Crimean War soldiers died in appalling conditions, but the treatment of enemy prisoners was surprisingly humane.
Compassion from the Kremlin often proved as short-lived as its critics. In Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, ...
An answer is suggested by a reminiscence of Malcolm covering a Chemistry lesson, a subject about which he took some pride in parading his almost total ignorance. ‘Like the ancients’, he began, ‘I ...
In the early 1800s harsh desert landscapes in North America’s West, including the Sonoran, Mojave, Chihuahuan, and Great Basin deserts, were considered a major obstacle by early advocates of US ...
In 1563 Elizabeth Flynte, a servant from Haselor, Warwickshire, described the extra-marital activities of her mistress to the church court of the Lichfield diocese: He come in here this night, ...
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