Letter, Diaries

Charles Brockden Brown (17711810) is a key writer of the revolutionary era and U.S. early republic, known for his landmark novels and other writings in a variety of genres. The Collected Writings of …

The heartwarming letters from Giovanna to her husband Tom Fletcher, their three sons, and mothers everywhere – from the bestselling author and host of the No. 1 Happy Mum Happy Baby podcast’Inspiring …

Gazetted into the 9th Foot as an ensign in 1808, Peter Le Mesurier saw action from the earliest days of the Peninsular War almost to its end. The ‘Fighting Ninth’ were in the thick of it, and his let …

Some art lessons can inspire. Others are useless or even harmful. Eli Levin has written an amusing recollection of his art-student years and subsequent development. We witness his struggles to overco …

Letters are dwindling with time, but their beauty and authenticity remains timeless. People have been writing letters for ages, countless letters expressing distress, conveying happiness, delivering …

This delightful book of writer-to-writer correspondence joins a full shelf of volumes in the genre, yet it is perhaps the first set of such letters ever A transacted via the A Internet. Also unusual, …

The cultural and political history of the watershed decade of the 20th century, as told by the New Yorker.The 1940s were a decade of upheaval and innovation: they saw the Nuremberg Trials and Israeli …

‘The author has done a quite outstanding job of editing and footnoting this rare memoir . . . this will be of genuine interest to the Peninsular War historian or enthusiast.’ Philip Haythornthwaite&# …

The First World War was an event so important, so catalytic, so transformative that it still hangs in the public memory and still compels the Historians pen. It was a conflict which, by the end of th …