A NEWSPAPER review of this book has come into our possession, which gives the impression that its most prominent feature is the treatment of biological questions such as the Darwinian theory.
A fascinating look at how the marginal status of Jewish women enabled them to become agents of modernization in 19th-century Eastern European Jewish society. In this extraordinary volume, Iris Parush ...
The Highlanders have the privilege of being Europe's only private army after they were presented with colours by Queen Victoria. Queen Elizabeth II renewed the honour more than a century later. And ...
94/268 A photograph of the artist James Tissot, circa 1860 to 1890 Public domain via Wikimedia Commons By the second half of the 19th century, the pace of life in Europe had accelerated to an ...