As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by. A t its height ...
Recent books, The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the ...
Other satellite technologies have also revolutionised daily life. Weather satellites have made forecasts more accurate, while ...
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French traces the line ...
Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of Nuclear Disaster by Melanie Arndt discovers how civil society flourished – and then faltered – in the fallout.
Roman politics after the Emperor Diocletian abdicated in AD 305 was confusingly complicated as emperors and deputy emperors of the West and of the East contended for power. Among them was Flavius ...
The year before Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, another writer, Olympe de Gouges, published a comparable call for equality during the turmoil of revolutionary France.
A creature, part human, part machine – literature’s first true cyborg – was born of a desire to end the tragedy and waste of the Great War.
L.B. as he was called was head of production at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from 1924 to 1951. Hollywood films inspired a largely favourable picture of the United States over much of the rest of the world and ...
El Generalísimo: Franco: Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness by Giles Tremlett considers the making of the mediocrity ...
O n 20 June 1940, with the threat of large-scale enemy bombing looming ever closer and the Battle of Britain imminent, a letter from the Ministry of Home Security was sent to sele ...
A literate slave was a must-have in wealthy ancient Roman households. Keen to capitalise on this taste for learning, masters and slaves alike turned education into profit.
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