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Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemis …

At a time when female architects were still as rare as hen’s teeth, a seemingly unlikely entrant to the profession, a middle-aged vicar’s wife – Annabel Dott, was taking tentative steps on building p …

Carolyn Ellis is the leading writer in the move toward personal, autobiographical writing as a strategy for academic research. In addition to her landmark books Final Negotiations and The Ethnographi …

Most Civil War histories focus on the performance of top-level generals. However, it was the individual officers below them who actually led the troops to enact the orders. Some of these were remarka …

Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst were the founders of Dartington – she the daughter of an American millionaire who was once Secretary to the US Navy; he the son of a Yorkshire parson and secretary to Rab …

The Experimentalists is a collective biography, capturing the life and times of the British experimental writers of the swinging 1960s. A decade of research, including as-yet unopened archives and in …

Baptist Noel (1798-1873) has been described by the American Evangelical Anglican historian Grayson Carter as a towering figure in nineteenth-century Evangelicalism, but he has been written out of its …

"Some things are not what they look and feel like." – "Louie the Tailor" Rosanova Lou was right. Who would have believed that Savannah, Georgia, specifically the Savannah Inn and …

"The Northern Whale-Fishery" by William Scoresby is a comprehensive exploration of the 19th-century whaling industry in the Arctic regions, blending maritime adventure with economic, enviro …

Reflections on the late Arthur Miller from over seventy writers, actors, directors and friends, with ”Arthur Miller Remembers”, an interview with the writer from 1995. Following his death in Februa …