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In the last volume of our Letter series, we invited 18 contributors to write to their partners.These heartfelt words are at once a celebration of romance and that first flush of love. Perhaps what …

First published in Paris in 1834, Journey to the United States of America / Viaje a los Estados Unidos del Norte America, by Lorenzo de Zavala, is an elegantly written travel narrative that maps de …

Silver Pages on the Lawn’ is the true story of student lovers and their star-crossed romance that endures parental disapproval as well as the want of time, money, and privacy. To bridge long …

We’ve all dreamed about travelling the world, one continent at a time, haven’t we? Well, here’s a girl who’s done it all. The Americas, Europe, Africa and widely in Asia, she’s been there, done that, …

The Brave Shall Inherit the Earth is the motto of the Rajputana Rifles, the oldest rifle regiment in the pre-World-War-Two Indian Army. It is a fitting epitaph to this remarkable young officer who …

In September 1943, just at the moment when their Italian guards were deserting their posts and British Prisoners of War were about to be liberated by the advancing Allied troops, they were ordered by …

Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, the recently discovered nineteenth-century novelist, broke many of the boundaries that circumscribed the life of both women and Hispanics in the southwestern territories …

On 7 July 2014, in an apparent response to the murder of three teenagers, Israel launched a major offensive against the Gaza Strip, lasting 51 days, killing 2145 Palestinians (578 of them children), …

In 1890, the thirty-year-old Chekhov, already knowing that he was ill with tuberculosis, undertook an arduous eleven-week journey from Moscow across Siberia to the penal colony on the island of …

I first met Irene one Enchanted Evening at the Kursaal dance rooms, Southend on sea. It was New Year’s Eve 1952 and South Pacific was showing at the local Cinema. I saw Irene ‘across a crowded room’ …