In March 1984, customs officials at the port of Swinoujscie, in northwestern Poland, spotted something suspicious about a ...

Liberals still haven't awakened from the dream of American unity — but the Puritans and their followers knew better ...

MURIEL SPARK: THE BIOGRAPHY BY MARTIN STANNARD, PHOENIX, $29.99. Muriel Spark was an imaginative child brought up in a bookless Edinburgh household in the 1920s. The curious 11-year-old laid the ...

The British Book Awards 2025 Book Trade shortlists have been unveiled, after a busy week for the UK book business as London Book Fair draws to a close. Penguin Random House and Hachette UK ...

Bullseye shows up to wreak havoc in the first two episodes, but his purpose there may have a much more broad impact on the ...

It holds your hands through the foundation of Rome, with excessive concern dedicated to the Aeneid, to the rise of the republic and the imperial period, then of Christianity and the splintering of the ...

Daredevil: Born Again star Vincent D'Onofrio has hit back at a fan who claimed the new Marvel Studios TV series has "ruined" Wilson Fisk, a.k.a. the Kingpin of Crime. Find his response after the ...

Maldon Books, Bridge Books and Queen’s Park Books are among the nine winning independent bookshops crowned ahead of The British Book Awards in May. Selected by the judges from 72 finalists ...

This award recognises high standards of published works in psychology, with nominees able to nominate books in any of the following categories: Each category will receive one award. The award includes ...

Trade became triangulated during the mid-1600s between the British Empire, its colonies, and foreign markets. This fostered the development of the slave trade by England in many colonies ...

He was appointed as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1985 Birthday Honours list for services to amateur boxing in Scotland. After his in-ring career, McTaggart worked as a ...

To the East India Company and the British Raj that followed it ... The map has just about every empire represented: the Carnatic, with its Nawab, is a huge presence, and huddled against the ...