Discover the convincingly researched and thoroughly entertaining (The Wall Street Journal) history of the worlds oldest and most influential fraternity Founded in London in 1717 as a way of binding men in fellowship, Freemaso...Lasīt vairāk
The author of The Way of the Gladiator turns from the arenas of ancient Rome to the center of debauchery and impiety in eighteenth-century England. Stranger, refuse, if you can, what we have to offer. These words, engraved in...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Aug-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803997360)
On Thursday 5 April 1877 police charged 30-year-old Annie Besant and her colleague Charles Bradlaugh with breaching the Obscene Publications Act 1857. The reason was the scandalous sale of a slim book called The Fruits of Philosophy. If the...Lasīt vairāk
