Past Realities: Building Five Lives
November 12, 2018
Dr Sylvia Shorto’s new book brings the history of the East India Company into fresh perspective with the micro stories of five men of the ruling class in Delhi, examining… READ MORE
Category: Early Modern and Modern History
The Richard Baxter Treatises: A Catalogue and Guide
November 9, 2018
Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was among the most prominent English nonconformist divines. An independent thinker, he had opinions – and usually expressed them – about every major controversy in England during… READ MORE
Music and Mourning in Elizabethan-Jacobean Song
October 31, 2018
In early modern England death was a pervasive shadow during everyday life. The departed were often honored in songs, or elegies. Music historian K. Dawn Grapes looks at the musical… READ MORE
Ghosts in Enlightenment Scotland
October 25, 2018
Why in the Age of Enlightenment, a time of “sober rationalism”, did ghost stories flourish in Scotland? Martha McGill’s new book examines this apparent contradiction and the reasons behind it,… READ MORE
Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: An interview with the editors
October 10, 2018
Christine A. Kray, Tamar W. Carroll, and Hinda Mandell, editors of the just-published Nasty Women and Bad Hombres: Gender and Race in the 2016 US Presidential Election (University of Rochester… READ MORE
An extract from Ernest Josef Aufricht’s ‘And The Shark, He Has Teeth’
September 27, 2018
Brecht, Weill and The Threepenny Opera are names practically synonymous with each other. However, little is known about the great theater producer behind its staging, Ernst Josef Aufricht, whose memoir, And… READ MORE
Provincial Society and Empire: The Cumbrian Counties and the East Indies, 1680-1829
September 17, 2018
Published earlier this year as part of our longstanding Worlds of the East India Company series, Kay Saville-Smith’s Provincial Society and Empire presents an unusual take on the Company and… READ MORE
A Global Fabric: Silk, Luxury, and Innovation
August 8, 2018
Threads of Global Desire: Silk in the Pre-Modern World is the first volume in the Pasold Studies in Textile, Dress and Fashion History from the Pasold Research Fund. It is… READ MORE
Horse Racing and British Society in the Long Eighteenth Century
August 3, 2018
Even if we neither participate nor spectate, horse racing is a constant presence in our culture. Racing seems to take place every single day of the year and results and… READ MORE
Persistent Questions: Translation and Holocaust Testimony
July 9, 2018
Without translation there would be no Holocaust. That’s the conclusion I came to about two-thirds of the way through the research and writing for my book, Witness between Languages. It’s… READ MORE
Some Thoughts on Performance as a Tradition