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Celia Marshik, the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Modernist Culture, explains the uncertain and innovating modernist period of the early 20th century through the lens of the beloved period drama Downton Abbey.
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David Chan Smith, the author of Sir Edward Coke and the Reformation of the Laws, traces the way one lawyer and judge shaped modern law, and how Coke's legacy plays a part in the crises of modern democracy.
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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'.
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Donald J. Lisio, the author of British Naval Supremacy and Anglo-American Antagonisms, 1914–1930, tells the unknown story of First Sea Lord David Beatty's takeover of the 1927 Geneva Naval Arms Control Conference and the crises that followed.
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Author Richard Dutton explores Ben Jonson's work and finds evidence that connects him to the Gunpowder Plot of 1605.
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With Scotland due to vote on a referendum declaring independence from the United Kingdom next week, Mo Moulton, the author of Ireland and the Irish in Interwar England, takes a look back at Irish independence and the culture of the British Isles.
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In this excerpt from his new book July Crisis, T.G. Otte reflects on the year 1914 as the beginning of the greatest war in world history. The events in Europe that July catapulted nations around the globe into a years-long conflict that continues to define national identity, international relations, and global culture.
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This week, we delve further into the cultural impact of author of the Great War as Paul Sheehan, Modernism and the Aesthetics of Violence, examines pity and pathos in World War I poetry.
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