South Wind - Norman Douglas

The Norman Conquest is one of the most momentous events in English history and its consequences changed England forever. Indeed, the Battle of Hastings and its aftermath nearly wip...

This essay takes up Sally Mapstone’s contention that Scottish Advice to Princes was directed as much to magnates and their supporters as it ever was to the king, and applies it to ...

The end of the Civil War may have marked the end of the official fighting, but the Congressional strategy to remake the South during Reconstruction led to a new period of warfare–a...

It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897–1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin arg...

Abstract Though for well over a century the novels of R.S. Surtees have maintained a steady readership, his books have been comparatively neglected in the literary a...

It has long been established that the crisis of 1066 generated a florescence of historical writing in the first half of the twelfth century. This book presents a new perspective on...