The changing role of woman in 20th-century Britain
Perhaps the most dramatic improvement in Britain’s way of life in the 20th century was the change in the place...
Perhaps the most dramatic improvement in Britain’s way of life in the 20th century was the change in the place...
From about 1550 the climate again grew colder with the intensification of what is known as “The Little Ice Age”...
Four miles north of Preston, Idaho, the Bear River quietly ambles through green valleys and sagebrush covered mountains, the Shoshone...
Coffee was one of the fancy new comestibles introduced to England in Stuart times. The first coffee-house was opened in...
For German families living under the threat of mass bombing, many experiences of everyday living were similar to those known...
Seventy years ago, interned by the Germans in Buchenwald concentration camp, the Dutch professor Peter Geyl tried out on the...
The insulting ‘treasure’ that France’s Dauphin sent to Henry V in Shakespeare’s play had long since played its part in...
Author: Sean McMeekin Publisher: Icon Books Reviewed by: Nigel Jones Price (RRP): £25 There are two conflicting schools of thought...
The years immediately following the peace settlement of 1815 are known as the restoration era. However, it was impossible to...
Thanks to decades of peace, English houses are no longer made for defence but for comfort. The newly rich may...