The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Victorian Fraudsters Who Almost Broke the Bank of England
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Late in 1873, London was gripped by the astonishing story emerging from the highest court in the...
Ramiro de Maeztu and England: Imaginaries, Realities and Repercussions of a Cultural Encounter
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Ramiro de Maeztu was one of the most influential Spanish intellectuals of the early twentieth...
Coleridge and Kantian Ideas in England, 1796-1817: Coleridge's Responses to German Philosophy
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Author of Biographia Literaria (1817) and The Friend (1809-10, 1812 and 1818), Samuel Taylor...
Poets, Players, and Preachers: Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England
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On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of...
Prophecy, Politics and Place in Medieval England: From Geoffrey of Monmouth to Thomas of Erceldoune
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The period from the twelfth century to the Wars of the Roses witnessed a dominant tradition of...