Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert looks beyond the cities to the coffee and cotton that fuelled a global market.
Rider Haggard after hours spent digging on Bradenham Heath in Norfolk searching for the gibbet cage in which the body of the ...
Who is the most overderrated person in history? Henry VIII. Nasty piece of work and not as clever as he thought he was.’ ...
The legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable ...
The new threepenny weekly was launched as Punch or The London Charivari, implying a mixture of cheerful humour and biting satire. Punch was from Punch and Judy, while the word charivari meant a ...
Though remembered as the era of the housewife, momentous change in the status of British women began in the 1950s. The 1950s is remembered as an era of ideal homes and perfect housewives. Yet this ...
Ramsay MacDonald presided over his last cabinet on June 5th, 1935. He resigned two days later, on June 7th, 1935. From an unpromising start as the bastard son of a Scots farm girl, James Ramsay ...
Charles Dimont traces the origin and history of ‘God Save the King’ (or ‘God Save the Queen’), the British national anthem. The origins of “God Save the Queen” are lost in obscurity, but there is no ...
The story of Orpheus and Eurydice is a myth of enduring love that has inspired artists, writers and composers for centuries. Orpheus and Eurydice, hand in hand, walk away from the fiery underworld and ...
In 1776 the Founding Father John Adams stated that future commemorations of the United States’ independence ‘ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, ...
After he was formally condemned to death in Moscow, the Mexican government offered Trotsky refuge and protection, on December 6th 1936. After the Russian Revolution of 1917 Leon Trotsky organised the ...
On 1 July 1903 a publicity stunt for a sporting paper cycled into history as the first Tour de France. By the late 19th century the relationship between art and Italy felt consigned to history. On 30 ...
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