What the war released above all was a spirit of ephemerality’ Mark Polizzotti is Head of Publications at the Metropolitan ...
On 9 October 1771 masterpieces of Dutch art destined for Catherine the Great sank with the Vrouw Maria off the coast of ...
On 1 October 1868 King Mongkut – who reigned as Rama IV – passed away having trod a delicate course to keep Thailand free of ...
The acute housing crisis of mid-Victorian Britain generated stormy opinions about the nature of state intervention and the ...
The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett picks through the fragments of ...
The Grand Principality of Moscow gained its independence from the Mongol Golden Horde in the fifteenth century under Ivan III, the Great, who vastly extended Muscovite territory. His grandson Ivan IV, ...
To whom are we indebted for the particular forms of the letters we write and read today? Our alphabet, of course, we owe to the Romans, who themselves derived it from Greek colonists, who, in their ...
“Nottingham: a magnificent town full of improbable splendours.” Why improbable? The Anglian chief, Snot, leading the Snotenga folk up the steep escarpment of St. Mary’s Hill—Snotingaham to them—some ...
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