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I have mentioned elsewhere that the best work of history I have read in a long, long time is Keith Thomas’s The...
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I have mentioned elsewhere that the best work of history I have read in a long, long time is Keith Thomas’s The...
My friend and colleague Tim Larsen on A History of Oxford Anthropology: The tone is set in a preface in which the...
James Bridle’s newspaper-style account of Walking Stewart and his peregrinations through Victorian London.
Following 1,000 years of cultural decline and societal collapse known as the Dark Ages, the 15th century brought forth...
A provocative thought from the wonderful new book A Very Brief History of Eternity, by my friend Carlos Eire: . . . few...
The recovery of an ancient European culture, described here. Wonderful stuff. (But I never have liked this kind of...
British Pathe – ( EARLY TRAFFIC SCENES ) – Watch more Videos at Vodpod. Not really about about anything...
I just turned in to my friends at First Things a review of the new book by Sir Keith Thomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to...
In 1815, Cardinal Angelo Mai made an extraordinary discovery in the Ambrosian Library in Milan. He spotted that a book...
Here's Robert Patterson's encrypted letter (1801) to President Thomas Jeferson: The cipher has...