If you haven’t yet read the History Today Books ... In Byron: A Life in Ten Letters (Cambridge), Andrew Stauffer weaves the poet’s own words into a narrative that gets inside the mercurial mind of his ...

Francis Young is author of Twilight of the Godlings: The Shadowy Beginnings of Britain’s Supernatural Beings (Cambridge University ... (Oxford University Press) My book of the year is John Ma’s Polis: ...

a reader absorbed in a book is, at least for the moment, on the safe side of the boundary between thought and action. What is most revealing about Mr. Mangione’s Goodreads history isn’t what ...

Despite having a vast ground to cover, given the moon’s 4.5-billion-year entwined history with Earth, Boyle writes with clarity and wonder. The book is part encyclopedia, part lunar biography ...

Volume VI of The Cambridge History of International Law offers a survey of the law of nations in early modern Europe through a balanced treatment of legal theory and diplomatic practice. Bringing ...

Through it all, Chesshyre’s writing features a slew of sharp-witted observations, rich characters and ample history to boot. In fact, in his latest book, Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and ...

Fans of revisionist presidential history cannot miss this book. Rarely have I read such a comprehensive and relentless takedown: Mr. Cox’s Wilson is a committed racist, a despiser of women and ...

An Image of My Name Enters America, by Lucy Ives 2024 was the year of the breakup book; you couldn’t encounter the new-releases table at the bookstore without running into a flurry of wonderful ...

That had increased more than eightfold to 84,890 by 2024, including 23,000 GCSE History papers. This year, typed responses were submitted from 4,974 schools, colleges, and other UK exam centres.

The history books say he walked six miles in the dark. Nobody knows for sure which direction but when you look at the map, and understand who lived in the houses lining the roads, there's only one ...

We had rented bikes from Primo Bikes and found ourselves leisurely pedalling along riverside paths, across verdant parks and past colleges steeped in history. It appeared we weren't alone in our ...