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We might be tempted to think of the court at early modern Whitehall as equivalent to the modern White House or Buckingham Palace, but it was much more than that, for the king’s household was not merely the seat of England’s government, but its social and cultural headquarters as well
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If you’d like to visit the front lines of climate change, you need not travel as far as the North Pole. Easier to access, and far more revealing of the nature in which climate change is altering our everyday lives, is Louisville, Kentucky. Known as the home of the Kentucky Derby, in recent years this city has distinguished itself from other Midwestern river towns in at least one additional respect: Louisville may now be the climate change capital of the urban world.
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The bicentennial of the War of 1812 is now upon us. It might be supposed, after the passage of two centuries, that all the emotions surrounding the conflict have subsided and that American, British, and Canadian historians would be free to discuss the war in neutral and dispassionate ways. Yet current indications suggest that the bicentennial might well revive the passions of two centuries ago.
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A small lockable leather diary in the archive at Cambridge University Library has led to a reassessment of one of the key relationships in Charles Darwin’s life. The Darwin Correspondence Project, with the permission of Darwin’s family, is making public for the first time the short but intense—and intensely revealing—personal journal of Darwin’s daughter, Henrietta.
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From Westminster Abbey to St. Paul’s Cathedral, many of London’s famed monuments have survived fires, smog, flooding, and other natural and man-made disasters. In this slideshow, we take a look at some of the city’s most enduring icons.
Read MoreIf all the world’s a stage, then all eyes will be on London this summer. With the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee and the Summer Olympics, it seems everywhere you look London is in the headlines. Here at the Cambridge Book Club, we’re getting into the spirit by featuring London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750 by Robert Bucholz and Joseph Ward.
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Since the 1970s, largely because of repeated academic employment crises and not (initially at least) because of any larger vision of history’s role in society, history departments have broadened their preparation of historians. Yet despite many effective efforts to alter the preparation of historians, the structure of history institutions, and the practices pursued by historians, no one has endeavored to assess where we’ve come in those 50 years, where we might still travel, and what we still must face.
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Over the course of the quarter century I researched this book I have had the privilege of seeing every plant mentioned in the Bible and Quran first hand. As a result I am sometimes asked which plant is my favorite. This is a tough question because of knowing these plants well. So to equivocate, I will settle on three—flax, aloeswood, and poppy.
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