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Ai Weiwei is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists and dissidents. This book presents him in conversation with theorists, critics, journalists, and curators about key moments in his life and care …

'I write about love, I write about friendship, ' remarked Thom Gunn: 'I find that they are absolutely intertwined.' These core values permeate his correspondence with friends, fam …

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 …

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 …

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 …

A "poignant" collection of real letters sent to Santa Claus-a town in Indiana-from the 1930s to the twenty-first century, from both children and adults (The New York Times).For countless Ch …

Tony Benn’s final instalment of diaries centres on a decade which saw the disintegration of Eastern Europe, an unprecedented assault on the labour movement at home, the fall of Margaret Thatcher and …