The W. Hawkins Ferry collection

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1...

The meanings originally communicated by Elizabethan and Jacobean dress have long been confined to history. Why, then, have doublets, hose, ruffs and farthingales featured in many S...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted its...