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Darkness has shaped the lives of humans for millennia, and in Dark Skies, Tiffany Francis-Baker travels around Britain and Europe to learn more about nocturnal landscapes and humanity”s connection t …

This critical, multi-volume edition of Mao”s writings is an indispensable guide to post-1949 Chinese politics and an invaluable research tool for anyone seeking to understand Communist rule in …

The future of journalism is hotly contested and highly uncertain reflecting developments in media technologies, shifting business strategies for online news, changing media organisational and regulat …

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ‘Heavenly voice’ told her ‘There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

Roger Bromley deals with the ways in which certain popular forms contribute to the social production of memories. The texts he examines include the fictions of R. F. Delderfield and Lena Kennedy. …

Join Joe Shute as he travels across Britain tracing the history of our seasons and discovering how they are changing. We talk about them. We plan our lives around them. The changing seasons are par …

Walter the Chancellor”s vivid first-hand account of the wars between the Muslims and the principality of Antioch in the early 12th century describes a less well-known period in the history of the …

"If I May" by A. A. Milne is a collection of witty essays offering humorous observations and insightful reflections on everyday life. As a master of British wit and literary criticism, …

From the forbidden fruit of the Old Testament to the numerous laws broken at Francois Mitterand”s final meal, In the Devil”s Garden is a mouth-watering history of food taboos from around the world …

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, India stood on the brink of an exciting new era. Yet only a decade later, a series of corruption scandals and acts of violence against women had …