On the acquisitions front, a pretty good week I think. Though after last week, anything would have been an improvement. Some great freebies, a Kindle ...

Whenever it is the purpose of a (political) mission which has to be ascertained, it behoves one to ask three questions without delay: why was the mission ...

The ship the SS Great Eastern in 1858.Early Life and EducationBrunel was born on the 9th of April, 1806, in Portsmouth, England, to a French father, Marc ...

Early Life and Meeting His Crime FamilySicilian gangsters of Chicago are most often associated with Cicero and the South Side, but there was also a small ...

Banknotes awaiting distribution during the 1923 German hyperinflation. Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R1215-506 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, available here.Early life ...

A teacher, Mary R. Hyde, and students at the Carlisle Indian Training School. Source: here and here.At least two years before 2016, large numbers of ...

Collecting art is more than a hobby. It is a practice that can have economic, social, historical and even political implications. How to ...

The Uffington White Horse. Source: World Wind, available here.The description of this activity has been termed “leucippotomy” for the carving of horses ...

The Peepshow – The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale has been on my TBR for a while and I’m SO glad I’ve now read it. It’s a brilliant ...

Barnes Neville Wallis.Early life and educationWallis's early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles ...