David Hooson, formerly of Segrwyd Hall, near Denbigh, who has died aged 88, joined the long-established law firm of Swayne Johnson in 1968 and became a partner and then a consultant for the firm until 2011. He was also the Diocesan Registrar and Legal …
Historian at CCNY’s Black Studies Department Emmanuel Lachaud says, “If I really want to have a good writing day, I take the train an hour and fifteen minutes to somewhere that I love. I like to call it the quietest place in New York City.” Lachaud tells …
Following French far-right leader Marine Le Pen's conviction of embezzlement and her sentencing to a five-year ban on running for office, effective immediately including during her appeal, her Rassemblement National party launched an attack on what it …
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. — British historian Dominic Sandbrook is set to present the Bard College Eugene Meyer Lecture in British History and Literature on Tuesday, May 6, an announcement said. Sandbrook, cohost of the podcast “The Rest is History,” is …
Grace Wood and Nina PullmanBBC News ShareSave According to the 16th Century pamphlet cheese was regularly eaten at the end of a meal in Tudor times The tradition of having a cheeseboard at the end of a meal dates back at least 400 years to Tudor times, …
CAEN, France (AFP) — Historians are rethinking the way the Holocaust is being presented in museums as the world marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the last Nazi concentration camps this month. Shocking images of the mass killings of Jews were …
Shai Halevi of the Israel Antiquities Authority documents an Arabic inscription in the Hall of the ... More Last Supper.Joshua Faudem / ©Israel Antiquities Authority Biblical tradition holds that the Cenacle — a room on the upper floor of a Jerusalem …
Speaking to France's National Assembly on April 11, Russian opposition leader Vladimir Kara-Murza did not petition Europe for the Kremlin's total military defeat. Yet, while answering one of the many questions posed to him, he talked about how a …
They are 450-year-old words of wisdom but they will ring true with anyone rooting around the fridge for late night comfort: “A surfyte of cheese doth bringe payne.” The warning for people to curb their enthusiasm is contained in the earliest-known book on …
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