Moderna

The miracle of St Cuthbert's incorrupt corpse has been the subject of much fascination since his death over thirteen-hundred years ago, inspiring pilgrims, monks, and even the construction of Durham C...

In the late 12th century, two very strange children came out of an ancient earthwork at the village of Woolpit in East Anglia. They wore clothes of a colour and material never seen before, spoke a lan...

The struggles that toppled the Peacock throne The Moghuls invaded India in the early sixteenth century and maintained their rule over much of the sub-continent for over 200 years. By the early eightee...

Originally published in 1884. Author: Dosabhai Framji Karaka Language: English Keywords: Religion Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely ...

An impressive piece of historical evidence. These letters provide us with an important perspective into a Jewish family's life as it is on the brink of destruction. Professor Sussman weaves together m...

The bringing together of the Antients and Moderns to form the United Grand Lodge of England in 1813 was a tricky matter. How all this came about is not just an English tale but an Irish and Scots one ...

Sugar and Colonialism in Asia and the Americas, 1800-1940 Sugar was the single most valuable bulk commodity traded internationally before oil became the world’s prime resource. From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, cane sugar production was pre-emine

Italian Travel-Writing between the Wars During the twenty years of Mussolini’s rule a huge number of travel texts were written of journeys made during the interwar period to the sacred sites of Fascist Italy, Mussolini’s newly conquered Afr