E. H. Carr famously said that the creation of history is embedded in the ‘reciprocity between the past and present’ (What is History. 1962). Obviously, all history is shaped by the historians who create...
One of the oldest surviving English-language cookbooks, this fascinating work was originally compiled in the late fourteenth century by the master cooks at the court of Richard II. It contains nearly 200 recipes for the preparation of everyday dishes as well as elaborate banquets.
In this, the second of three posts by T. W. Körner, author of Calculus for the Ambitious (2014) explores Joseph Fourier's ground-breaking work.
Dennis Danielson, author of Paradise Lost and the Cosmological Revolution takes a look at the effect of astronomical discovery on the writings of John Milton.
Anastasia Telesetsky, an editor of The International Law of Disaster Relief, discusses how international law can play a larger role in disaster relief and disaster prevention when it comes to major catastrophes like floods, tsunamis, and hurricanes.
Richard Sandbrook, the author of Reinventing the Left in the Global South, explores progressive politics in Latin America, South America, and Africa.
Robert Bireley chronicles his interest in German history and how he came to write Ferdinand II, Counter-Reformation Emperor, 1578–1637.
Matthew Saul, the author of Popular Governance of Post-Conflict Reconstruction, comments on the UK parliamentary debate over airstrikes against ISIL.
After the success of his 1851 book on The Roman Wall, in 1863 John Collingwood Bruce (1805–92) published this shorter work, intended as 'a guide to pilgrims journeying along the Barrier of the Lower Isthmus'.
Thomas J. Allen and Rory P. O'Shea, editors of Building Technology Transfer within Research Universities, suggest six strategies for research universities striving to live up to a profitable commercial model.
Humanities Commissioning Editor Linda Bree, interviews Martin Paul Eve, author of Open Access and the Humanities. Martin has been an expert witness before the UK House of Commons Select Committee BIS...
The law of occupation—a concept popular since Roman times—offers a finders-keepers approach to claiming property. Andrew Fitzmaurice, the author of Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 1500–2000, explores the historical concepts of occupation and ownership to expose the injustices of empire.