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Lynette Roberts loved obscure words and was not shy about using them. Over the course of two pages, I had to look up ‘. ..

While Æthelstan’s grandfather, Alfred, had revived the practice of issuing law codes, Æthelstan was by far the most. ..

Early samurai were members of a professional warrior class who served under a daimyo; they fought with bow and arrow on. ..

The Ptolemies came too late for many histories of Greece and Egypt and too early for Rome. Alexandria, their capital, ...

That slavery persisted in Muslim societies well into the 20th century is undeniable. More questions need to be asked. ..

The story​ of the English printing press has no convenient beginning. It makes for inconsistent centennials; a quatercentenary celebration was held in 1877, two quincentenary exhibitions in 1975...

Circumstantial evidence suggests that Vigil. ..

In some ways, Amie Barrodale’s first novel, Trip, is a send-up of a culture obsessed with ‘healthmaxxing’, where. ..

Harrison’s life and career was part of the postwar flowering of the avant-garde, which reached its apotheosis in the. ..

This is what distinguishes hyperpolitics from the mass democracy of the mid-20th century. Symbolic political gestures. ..

For a time the London Review of Books might have been considered a little magazine: uncertain of its future but clear it. ..

Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling is a book about a city but it’s also a book about families and shows that even. ..

close your eyes and feel the smog clearas you descend shrinking into your boyhood shortsand slow as cruising wings to your townwhere a kola kube in a scoop for a paper bagat the sweet shop is on. ..

Maritime trade has always had to negotiate geographic bottlenecks: the Suez Canal, for example, or the Malacca Strait or. ..