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Deep Throat has hit middle age. The classic porn film starring Linda Lovelace turns 40 this summer, having enjoyed its premiere in New York City in June 1972. Rather than experiencing a midlife crisis, which might entail fading into obscure Hollywood history—a relic of a brief, bygone age when pornography reigned on the big screen—Deep Throat is hotter than ever.
As we write in the opening of Chapter 7, “London liked to portray itself as a loyal, royal city”; furthermore, when they were not opposing the Crown and its ministers, Londoners liked to turn out for...
It’s your last chance to show us what the Swinging City looks like to your London Eye. Submit your photo and tell us why you love it before it’s too late to win an advance copy of London: A...
In June 1871 Henrietta met Richard Buckley Litchfield, a barrister and lecturer in music at the London Working Men’s College; they were married in the parish church in her parents’ village of Downe,...
Visitors to London today are often struck by the relative approachability of the offices of central government. Although the security concerns of recent years have certainly spawned an elaborate network...
If you’d like to visit the front lines of climate change, you need not travel as far as the North Pole, the nearest melting glacier, or the most recently inundated island. Easier to access by road...
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...
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.
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.
If 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.
When I entered graduate school at Columbia University in 1960, two distinct expectations governed its history department’s faculty and students. One was that one group of its students, mostly even if...
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