Recently, I was working on a couple of totally unrelated projects relating to British history and culture – one about imperial history, the other on an early twentieth century literary theme. In both ...
In 2008, the French critic Lucien Jaume published an interpretation of Alexis de Tocqueville that won a prize from the Académie Française. An English version by the eminent translator Arthur ...
It is rare for a single family to be the subject of action by both Buckingham Palace and the Holy See in the same week. The Spencer clan, though, is no ordinary family—it includes the dukes of ...
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Why Academies?: Aristocratic Education in Revolutionary America -- Part I: From Denominational Schools to Nationalist Institutions, 1730-1787 -- ...
They don’t dominate parliament, they don’t own Twitter and they don’t star in big Hollywood movies. Yet the British aristocracy’s capacity to intrigue and enthral seems boundless. In 2016, Vanity Fair ...
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