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Highways and Byways in Wiltshire by Edward Hutton Cottages in Lacock village, Wiltshire. Photograph: Dave Henrys/Alamy Years ago I came across a faded little volume in a secondhand bookshop near Salisbury: Highways and Byways in Wiltshire by Edward Hutton, published during the first world war. Inside its pages a world opened before me: little lanes, silent villages, rivers that meandered through unspoilt landscapes of willow and elm. The books weren’t practical, but their idiosyncrasies were ...

What Asian and European travellers wrote about Lord Ram for nearly 1,800 years Arun Anand © Provided by The Print New Delhi: The dust has now settled on disputes over the existence and birth of Lord Ram, with his temple being constructed in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya, after 500 years of struggle by Hindus and the 2019 Supreme Court decision after a protracted legal battle in courts. On the occasion of Ram Navami, here’s a look at the writings by foreign travellers on the Hind...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. It is hard not to warm to the personality of Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke (1656–1733), the most celebrated and eccentric collector of antiquities in early 18th-century Britain. In Lord Wharncliffe’s description a century later, the earl ‘distinguished himself chiefly by odd whims and peculiarities; one of which was a fixed resolution not to believe that any thing he disliked, ever did or could happen’. At the same time, he was a serious figure...

The National Museum of Ireland holds a collection of over 15,000 objects relating to the revolutionary years of 1914 to 1923, telling the story of the foundation of the Irish state and the men and women who fought to achieve it.  However, there are fewer objects associated with the War of Independence, and also a difference in the type of object collected from these two different phases of the revolution.  Objects collected from the Rising tended to be mementoes of the participants, particula...

population in the nation. this population growth also created a much more segregated city in washington, d.c. as african-americans continued to move in and were funneled into certain sections of this city. by the start of the 20th century, washingtons african-american community constituted essentially a separate city within the federal government, a secret city, as one author has described it. now, while we know a great deal about the general history of african-americans in this city, ...

colored methodist episcopal church located on capitol hill in 1820. and even closer to our location, the most important, probably longest enduring institution was the 15th street presbyterian church founded in 1841. it was the first african-american presbyterian church in the city. it was founded by the educator and pastor john f. hook sr. and its first meetings were in his home located at 14th and 8th street northwest. do you know where that is? where are we now? were at 16th and 8th ...

role even after emancipation, during reconstruction and the years that followed. so what ive talked about so far is sort of that foundation of the african-american community that continues through the 19th century. after 1860, washingtons african-american population continues to increase in size dramatically. by 1870, there are more than 43,000 african-american residents of the city, one-third of the total population. by 1890, this number had grown to 75,000, and they were still one-th...