Thomas Jefferson 
Notes on the State of Virginia 

"The Future of the Women’s Movement" by Helena M. Swanwick is a thought-provoking essay advocating feminism, women’s rights, and social change. Swanwick, a prominent figure in the suffrage …

Francis Graham Wilson was a central figure in the revival of interest in political philosophy and American political thought in the mid-twentieth century. While he is best known as a Catholic writer …

Featuring essays from David Olusoga, Dawn Butler MP, Kit de Waal, Kwame Kwei-Armah, and many more.In response to the international outcry at George Floyd's death, Lenny Henry and Marcus Ryder …

A Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Rest is Politics and Waterstones Highlight for 2024 ” Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent the wheel. What we have here is a truly encyclopae …

An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern hi …

The future of journalism is hotly contested and highly uncertain reflecting developments in media technologies, shifting business strategies for online news, changing media organisational and regulat …

The Suspecting Glance (first published in 1972) collects Conor Cruise O'Brien's four T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures as delivered at the University of Kent, Canterbury, in November 1969. The …

Finalist for the NBCC Award for Criticism ”Nothing about Jenny Diski is conventional. Diski does not do linear, or normal, or boring … highly intelligent, furiously funny” Sunday Times …

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies” life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a ‘Heavenly voice’ told her ‘There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek …

First Published in 1999. Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996) was born in Crete, and published his first poems in 1935. He established himself as one of the leading figures in the ”Generation of the …