Churchill once famously remarked that he would not join the navy because it was "all rum, sodomy and the lash." How far this was true of the navy during the Fre...
Starting in the mid-1930s, East African revivalists (or, Balokole: "the saved ones") proclaimed a message of salvation, hoping to revive the mission churches of...
"The abbey of Bury St Edmunds was one of the wealthiest and most highly privileged religious houses in central England, closely involved with central government...
"Perhaps never before has a state emphasized education to citizenship more than in the new nation founded in 1949 as the German Democratic Republic. For forty y...
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"The siege dominated warfare across the medieval world from Ireland to China. Contemporary evidence -- chronicle histories, and government records -- survive in...