A Little History of Poetry – A video interview with author John Carey
What is poetry? If music is sound organized in a particular way, poetry is a way of organizing…
Humanities
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‘What the did Crusades ever do for us?’ by Roger Crowley
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Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
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Younger Sons of Regency England (Part I) – The Story of Benjamin Smith
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Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
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Nazi Germany and Modernist art
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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Why Marx Was Right, by Terry Eagleton – an extract
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Astrid Lindgren: A Life in Pictures
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The Ten Books of Terry Eagleton
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Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton, An Extract
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‘What the did Crusades ever do for us?’ by Roger Crowley
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Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
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Younger Sons of Regency England (Part I) – The Story of Benjamin Smith
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Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
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Nazi Germany and Modernist art
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Our year in books: Highlights from 2018
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Why Marx Was Right, by Terry Eagleton – an extract
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Astrid Lindgren: A Life in Pictures
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The Ten Books of Terry Eagleton
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Radical Sacrifice by Terry Eagleton, An Extract
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Hellfire and Redemption – an extract from Sons of the Waves
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
A Schoolmaster’s War – an extract from Harry Rée’s wartime diaries
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
Q&A with Nick Morley, illustrator of A Little History of Poetry
Each book in our Little Histories series is illustrated by a different contemporary artist-illustrator, whose specially commissioned work…
Einstein on the Run: How Britain Saved the World’s Greatest Scientist
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all…
‘What the did Crusades ever do for us?’ by Roger Crowley
What did the crusades ever do for us? This clash of medieval civilizations is defined by warfare, but over…
The World the American Revolution Made
The imperial American Revolution altered forever the lives of everyday people, ravaging communities and sending thousands of individuals…
Cursed Britain: A History of Witchcraft and Black Magic in Modern Times
Throughout British history, the power of witchcraft, curses and black magic has endured. Whether in the 1800s or…
Younger Sons of Regency England (Part II) – William Yescombe
In Regency England, the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance,…
Younger Sons of Regency England (Part I) – The Story of Benjamin Smith
In Regency England, the eldest son usually inherited almost everything while his younger brothers, left with little inheritance,…
Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City
When last summer John Henderson published Florence Under Siege: Surviving Plague in an Early Modern City, he little…
The Elizabethan Image by Sir Roy Strong – An Extract
In November 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the throne and was confronted with a politically, socially, and culturally fractured…
Bletchley Park and D-Day: A Q&A with David Kenyon
Since the secret of Bletchley Park was revealed in the 1970s, the work of its codebreakers has become…
Nazi Germany and Modernist art
Culture was integral to the smooth running of the Third Reich. During the war, the arts were closely…