Rosemary Wakeman’s The Worlds of Victor Sassoon: Bombay, London, Shanghai, 1918-1941 is a tale of three cities linked by ...
The first year of Edward I’s reign saw waves of strictures placed on a Jewish community in an already perilous situation. It ...
How many planets are there? As with the discovery of Uranus, the answer depends on who you ask. Detail from Joseph Wright of ...
What makes someone a king? More importantly, what unmakes a king? Henry II’s experiment in co-kingship saw one Henry III fall ...
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della ...
The Act of Uniformity passed by the House of Lords on January 15th, 1549, abolished the Latin mass in England. Prayers in English had already been included in the Latin services, and complete English ...
Today, where youth everywhere are the darlings of this world, and ‘older’ individuals are being more and more hurried into retirement, it is refreshing to read in history of an ‘old man’ totally ...
The Grammar of Angels: A Search for the Magical Powers of Language by Edward Wilson-Lee finds in Giovanni Pico della Mirandola a case for the Rennaissance as a triumph not of individuality, but of ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback