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On Halloween night, 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last seen in the company of William Burke and William Hare. Days later, police discovered her remains in the surgery of the prominent anatomist Dr. Robert Knox. Docherty was the final victim of the most atrocious murder spree of the century. Together with their accomplices, Burke and Hare would be accused of killing 16 people over the course of 12 months in order to sell the corpses as "subjects" for dissection.

In this brilliant and accessible intervention, Shadow Foreign Secretary Lisa Nandy offers a road map for how Britain can leave behind the mess we’re in and become a self-confident, united outward-looking country, showing leadership in the world once again. As Brexit revealed, Britain’s ability to project a confident, internationalist foreign policy is shaped by and rooted in domestic priorities; it rests on the consent of its citizens.

“Game-changing . . . How history should be written.” — Andrew Roberts, author of Napoleon: A Life [An] ambitious re-examination of the intersection of gender and monarchy.” — New York Times Book Review Queen Elizabeth I was all too happy to play on courtly conventions of gender when...

Between 1850 and 1950, experts and entrepreneurs in Britain and the United States forged new connections between the nutrition sciences and the commercial realm through their enthusiasm for new edible consumables. The resulting food products promised wondrous solutions for what seemed to be both individual and social ills.

From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and through it, our history of consumption.

Wales, um 1300. Überall im Land werden Burgen gebaut und Befestigungsanlagen instandgesetzt. Es ist ein goldenes Zeitalter für Steinmetze, und Roisins Vater zählt zu den Besten seines Fachs. Als er verunglückt und nicht mehr arbeiten kann, steht die Existenz der ganzen Familie auf dem Spiel. Roisins Bruder Edward fehlt das Geschick seines Vaters, doch er weiß, dass Roisin nachts heimlich Skulpturen angefertigt hat, die an Schönheit nicht zu übertreffen sind, und gibt sie als seine aus.

In 55 B.C. Julius Caesar came, saw, conquered and then left. It was not until A.D. 43 that the Emperor Claudius crossed the channel and made Britain the western outpost of the Roman Empire that would span from the Scottish border to Persia. For the next 400 years the island would be transformed. Within that period would see the rise of Londinium, almost immediately burnt to the ground in A.D. 60 by Boudicca; Hadrian's Wall, which was constructed in A.D. 112 to keep the northern tribes at bay, as well as the birth of the Emperor Constantine in third century York.