Kulturhistoria

Uncle Vanya Anton Pavlovich Chekhov – Uncle Vanya is a play by Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. It was first published in 1897 and premiered in Moscow in 1899 in a production of the Moscow Art Theat …

The Secret Sharer is a short story that takes place at sea, near the Gulf of Siam, and is told from the perspective of a young nameless Captain. The captain is unfamiliar with both his ship and his c …

The Age of Revolution is the period from approximately 1774 to 1849 in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred in many parts of Europe and the Americas. The period is noted for …

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK When the First World War broke out, the suffragettes suspended their campaigning and joined the war effort. For pioneering suffragette doctors (and life partners) Flora …

It is asserted that domestic slavery has always been a constructive social element: history shows that it has always been destructive. History authoritatively establishes the fact that slavery is the …

Heartbreak House Bernard Shaw – This vintage book contains George Bernard Shaw’s 1919 play, ’Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes’. Ellie Dunn, her father, and her fia …

In ’Winning His Spurs: A Tale of the Crusades’ by G. A. Henty, readers are transported back to the medieval era of the Crusades, where chivalry and honor reign supreme. The book is written in Henty’s …

***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick*** The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they di …

The history of the world has been told in objects. But what about the objects that tell the history of women? What are the items that symbolise the journey of women from second-class citizens with no …

In C. G. Addison’s ’The History of the Knights Templars, the Temple Church, and the Temple’, readers are taken on a fascinating journey through the history of the legendary Knights Templars and their …