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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...
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...
In an exclusive interview, co-author Robert O. Bucholz explains why he and Joseph P. Ward chose to focus on this particular period in the history on this capital city.
From chazzanut to flamenco to Chinese opera, John Potter takes us on a journey around the world in A History of Singing. In part one, he and co-author Neil Sorrell discussed their inspiration for tackling...
In an exclusive interview, Susan-Mary Grant, author of ‘A Concise History of the United States of America‘, talks about the challenges of writing a new history of America and the persistent...
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