SAILORS' WIVES Margarette Lincoln, author of a new book on 18th-century naval wives, explores the roles of the women left behind when their menfolk went to sea
SAILORS' WIVES Margarette Lincoln, author of a new book on 18th-century naval wives, explores the roles of the women left behind when their menfolk went to sea
WHITE MAN'S WORDSMITH Rudyard Kipling died 70 years ago this month. His latest biographer Jad Adams explores the curious contradictions of a man who is seen as the mouthpiece of the British Empire
RISING OF THE REBEL LORDS John Adamson, whose ground-breaking new interpretation of the English Civil War is out this month, explains the overlooked part of rebellious republican-leaning nobles in the start of the conflict
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Release of the silent movie In Old California. Directed by DW Griffith of the Biograph Company, it was the first film to be shot in Hollywood.
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