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Great Events in Colonial American History – British Cultural Influence Series

The vibrant, contentious, politically engaged print culture of colonial America was a direct inheritance from England. The English printing tradition—with its coffeehouses, pamphlet wars, periodical press, and hard-won traditions of press freedom—crossed the Atlan...

For over a century, in a building most of us could not name, an organization known only by its post office box number — PO Box 500, London — has been quietly reading other people’s letters, following other people’s footsteps, and keeping the realm’s most closely guarded secrets. MI5, the British Security Service, was founded in 1909 in the nervous run-up to the First World W...

The LEGO Group has announced a spectacular new addition to its Ideas line: a detailed recreation of Downton Abbey that captures both the grandeur of upstairs life and the bustle of the servants’ quarters below.

Ring the bell and take a seat — preferably with a cup of tea — because this one’s going to take a while to build.

The LEGO Ideas Downton Abbey (21...

There is a university perched on the edge of Scotland where the wind comes straight off the North Sea, where students wear scarlet gowns to Sunday lunch, and where you can play a round of golf on the most famous course in the world between lectures. The University of St Andrews is not the obvious choice for an American looking to study abroad, and yet, year after year, it is ...

Sometimes, an idea for a column ends up just falling into your lap. Case in point: after finishing my review of The Draughtsman’s Contract, I had some trouble wondering how to follow it up. There were points where I considered maybe writing something about “How Soon is Now?” or maybe reviewing Better Man now that Robbie Williams outed himself as autistic. But then my D...