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In 1777, British General John Burgoyne surrendered to the Americans at the Battle of Saratoga. The battle was a decisive victory for the Americans, gave the French confidence to join the war against ...

Alice Sheldon, the woman behind the pseudonym James Tiptree Jr., was a multifaceted talent known for her masculine prose. She ...

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Farage made his sectarianism declaration in the wake of a controversial advert by his party, Reform UK, which took a speech made by Mr Sarwar, the Scottish Labour leader, out of context and declared ...

This novel is one that has stood the test of time with readers left feeling all types of emotions after reading it.

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Virginia Woolf didn’t realize when she began to publish her own work more than 100-years ago that she would birth a cottage ...

In the early 1370s, Louis I of Anjou, the second son of the French king, commissioned a vast series of tapestries, now on ...

I am finally drawing to a close with the largest novel I have read in decades. Nearly 700 pages. George Eliot’s Middlemarch is like a compendium of people who you see – before they do – what a ...

Middlemarch takes place in a fictional English village around the time of the great Reform Bill debates of the early 1830s, even though it was not written until 1871. George Eliot, the author ...

The journalist and BBC news anchor is a judge for The British Book Awards 2025, the winners of which are announced on 12 May.