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Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some ...

In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary ...

Marx is important to the historian in three different aspects – as an historian himself, as a philosopher of history, and as an historical figure. Here I propose to confine myself largely to the ...

Robert Hole shows how important historical context is for an understanding of the most significant document in American history. Robert Hole examines the often misunderstood careers of Lorenzo the ...

Robert Hole shows how important historical context is for an understanding of the most significant document in American history. Michael Morrogh explains why Gladstone took up the cause of Irish home ...

How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...