The Kremlin Letters: David Reynolds on the correspondence of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin
For nearly four years, and against all the odds, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin led the most effective alliance in history. Yet…
History
-
Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
Read More -
Why I Became an X Troop Commando
Read More -
Six People Who Shaped Madrid
Read More -
Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
Read More -
What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
Read More -
A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
Read More -
75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
Read More -
In Search of the River Jordan
Read More -
What is ‘Liveliness’ in Tudor art? By Dr Christina Faraday
Read More -
Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
Read More
-
Under Cover of Darkness: An Extract
Read More -
Why I Became an X Troop Commando
Read More -
Six People Who Shaped Madrid
Read More -
Art of the Grimoire: 7 Spell Books Through History
Read More -
What Stories Do Old Towns Tell?
Read More -
A Dickensland Extract: The Haunted Bridge
Read More -
75 years of Our NHS: an excerpt from Andrew Seaton’s new book
Read More -
In Search of the River Jordan
Read More -
What is ‘Liveliness’ in Tudor art? By Dr Christina Faraday
Read More -
Tracking Down Eighteenth-Century Optimists and Pessimists – By Penelope J. Corfield
Read More
Peace at Last: A Portrait of Armistice Day by Guy Cuthbertson – An Extract
Armistice Day was declared on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, 1918. In Peace at Last, author Guy Cuthbertson,…
Mussolini and Hitler – Christian Goeschel
Christian Goeschel- On 20 July 1944, a bomb exploded in the Wolf’s Lair, Adolf Hitler’s East Prussian Headquarters. The Nazi leader survived. Hours later,…
A Little History of Archaeology – a video interview with author Brian Fagan
What is archaeology? The word may bring to mind images of golden pharaohs and lost civilizations, or Neanderthal skulls and Ice Age cave art….
Five Things You Might Not Know About London’s Maritime History
Margarette Lincoln offers five things that you may not know about London’s maritime world in the age of Cook and Nelson. Traces of this…
Hedghog & Fox interview with Chris Wickham, author of ‘Medieval Europe’
This transcript is an edited extract from an interview conducted by the new Hedghog & Fox podcast at All Souls College in Oxford with…
A Day at Home in Early Modern England Author Q&A – by Tara Hamling and Catherine Richardson
A Day at Home in Early Modern England is co-authored by art historian Tara Hamling and literary scholar and cultural historian Catherine Richardson. The…
Martin Luther: Visionary Reformer by Scott H. Hendrix
It has been 500 years since Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. Scott H. Hendrix,…
The 2017 Heffers Medieval Festival, in partnership with Yale University Press
We at Heffers, Cambridge booksellers for 140 years, are great fans of Yale’s books, and we enjoy working with the team there very much….
ISIS, Christianity, and the Pact of Umar by David J. Wasserstein
David J. Wasserstein— When ISIS forces took the Iraqi city of Mosul in the summer of 2014, and later on when they took…
How Did We Read in the Past? by Abigail Williams
The mid-eighteenth century witnessed the birth and evolution of a commercial literary culture and the expansion of popular literacy, while also promoting the idea…
Five Characteristics of a Witch – An Extract by Ronald Hutton
Witches can be defined, quite legitimately, in a number of different ways in the present world. What follows is concerned only with the most…
Parliamentary Bills of 1858’s One Hot Summer, by Rosemary Ashton
A unique, in-depth view of London during the record-breaking hot weather of 1858, Rosemary Ashton’s One Hot Summer uncovers crucial moments in the lives of Victorian Londoners…
‘Otherness’ – Inside the International Medieval Congress 2017
This year the International Medieval Congress will focus on ‘otherness’. This focus has been chosen for its wide application across all centuries and regions and…
Grave New World – A Q&A with Stephen D. King
To mark the publication of Stephen D. King’s Grave New World: The End of Globalization, The Return of History, we chatted to Stephen about…