
The Stripping of the Altars – 50 Years in 50 Books
Eamon Duffy’s landmark account of the pre-Reformation church in England was first published in 1992. The Stripping of the Altars is a major revisionist…
Eamon Duffy’s landmark account of the pre-Reformation church in England was first published in 1992. The Stripping of the Altars is a major revisionist…
In The Stripping of the Altars, Eamon Duffy recreates lay people’s experience of religion in the pre-Reformation church, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither…
Murray Pittock’s Scotland is an engaging and authoritative history of Scotland’s influence in the world and the world’s on Scotland, from the Thirty Years…
In The Life of Music, Nicholas Kenyon explores the enduring appeal of the classical music canon at a moment when we can access all…
The Gunpowder Plot, the Civil Wars, Charles I’s execution, the Plague, the Great Fire, the Restoration, and then the Glorious Revolution: the seventeenth century…
Dr. Alex J. KaySenior Lecturer at the Chair of Military History / Cultural History of Violence, University of Potsdam and author of, Empire of…
In this extract from Going to Church in Medieval England, author Nicholas Orme discusses the customs, feasts and ceremonies that occurred in church during…
In this special festive blog, Yale author Clive Aslet welcomes us in to sit by a warm hearth as he gives a brief history…
When I was asked to consider writing Why Food Matters, I was told that this was not supposed to be an introduction to the…
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Parish churches were at the heart of English religious and social life in the Middle Ages and the sixteenth century. In Going to Church…
This next post in our series on Jewish History and Culture features an extract from Survivors: Children’s Lives After the Holocaust by Rebecca Clifford…
This post, the latest in our series on Jewish History and Culture, looks at holocaust survivor testimonies. It features extracts from Ecologies of Witnessing…
Our series of blog posts on Jewish History and Culture continues with this extract from Vivian Gornick’s biography of Emma Goldman, part of our…