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An outstanding new museum in the heart of Bruges opens its doors today. St John’s Hospital, one of the oldest and best-preserved hospital buildin
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections.
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Artists like Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Hendrick Avercamp documented locals' resilience in the face of freezing winters and food shortages
Servants are an unknown quantity at the heart of the Grand Tour, one of the most elite topics in eighteenth-century historiography. If each noble or genteel traveler brought at least one employee, then more people knew this kind of travel as a period of work than as a rite of passage or an early form of tourism.In this talk, Richard Ansell will introduce this hidden majority through four texts that appear in his forthcoming volume, Servants Abroad: Travel Journals by British Working People. These are Thomas Addison’s journal for France and Italy (1765), Edmund Dewes’s diary for France, the...
The Messerschmitt Bf 110 was not the best or the worst of the combat aircraft to see service during the Second World War.