Category: Early Modern and Modern History

Of Life and Limb

Of Life and Limb

Patching up scratches and scrapes is a natural part of childhood, but what if stopping a bleeding cut required amputation rather than a Band-Aid? Until quite recently this was the… READ MORE

The Landscape Studies of Hayman Rooke

The Landscape Studies of Hayman Rooke

Major Hayman Rooke – soldier, landscape historian, antiquarian, amateur archaeologist – is the fascinating subject of Emily Sloan’s new book. But who was he and how did Dr Sloan piece… READ MORE

Converting Britannia

Converting Britannia

Dr Gareth Atkins’ new book examines the political and social impact of Evangelicalism around the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Just how did William Wilberforce and his Evangelical contemporaries… READ MORE

The Lawn Road Flats

The Lawn Road Flats

The Isokon building, better known as the Lawn Road Flats, in north London is a stunning modernist building that was – no pun intended – groundbreaking when built in the… READ MORE

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