Imperial measures

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Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern ...

Dominic Sandbrook is speaking about Gordon of Khartoum. He lowers his voice to a reverent whisper, leans into his microphone and tells me of “an imperial hero, an adventurer, who ended his days on the

The Americans are even more prone than the British to the biographical doorstopper as a way in which to honour the lives, minute by minute, of their famous dead. Walter Isaacson and Jon Meacham are am

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors

Reminiscences Joe Brainard I Remember 208pp. Daunt. ...