From a 12th-century fortress to a palace and museum, Louvre’s centuries of history faced a daring movie-style heist that ...
A huge cache of documents, which includes drafts of the famed madeleine passage, is for sale. France’s National Library is ...
The Meredith Public Library will host a NH Humanities lecture titled “The Capital Crime of Witchcraft: What the Primary Sources Tell Us” on Thursday, Oct. 30, at 6:30 ...
An incredibly rare 17th-century book has been found in a donation bin at Michigan State University’s thrift shop, with a ...
The people who help run the Michigan State University Surplus Store come across thousands of donated books each month but ...
The personal library owned by a 17th century Scottish minister, academic and administrator has been brought together for the ...
Pundits’ kept Sanskrit scholarship alive in remote settlements as British control swept across India, a major new research ...
Medieval artists didn’t always have firsthand experience with the animals they painted, and nowhere is that more obvious than ...
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Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.” ...
A council has called for a general pardon of people executed after historical witch trials, including seven women who were hanged in Kent in 1652. Five women from Cranbrook and one woman from Lenham ...