
What Are Brothers For? – Warner Bros, An Extract
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting…
The Warner brothers formed one of the most iconic and powerful movie studios of the 20th century, delighting…
Despite his untimely death from tuberculosis, Danish writer Jens Peter Jacobsen became a cult figure to a generation…
We at Heffers, Cambridge booksellers for 140 years, are great fans of Yale’s books, and we enjoy working…
Gerald Shea – Noam Chomsky, giving a lecture in Chicago in 1965, mistakenly defined language as “a…
Emily Katz Anhalt— The ancient Greeks were open-minded without being tolerant. They didn’t devise the world’s first-ever democracy…
David J. Wasserstein— When ISIS forces took the Iraqi city of Mosul in the summer of 2014,…
In Mob Town: A History of Crime and Disorder in the East End, John Bennett delves into four…
In his latest work, Against the Grain, James C. Scott explores why humans abandoned hunting and gathering for…
In her new book, The London Cage, historian Helen Fry reveals what life was like in one of…
Described by The Times as ‘the biographical equivalent of a buddy film’, Margaret Willes’ The Curious World of…
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed the birth and evolution of a commercial literary culture and the expansion of popular…
Witches can be defined, quite legitimately, in a number of different ways in the present world. What follows…
Matthew Lockwood offers a fresh and fascinating history of crime and violence in England through the office of…
A unique, in-depth view of London during the record-breaking hot weather of 1858, Rosemary Ashton’s One Hot Summer uncovers crucial…
On this day in 1817, Jane Austen passed away in Winchester, England at the age of 41. In…