Produced at amazing speed in the years after the Conquest, the Domesday Book provides a vivid picture ... The official who wrote Dialogue of the Exchequer in 1179 wrote that 'just as the sentence ...
This is the first book in a new fantasy series from the author ... Among them are Gouverneur Morris, a pal of Alexander Hamilton’s who wrote the preamble to the Constitution, and Clara Brown ...
As well as being the government’s regulator and censor of drama, he was also an enthusiast, so it irked him that the book didn’t say ... William Shakespeare wrote most of what we now know ...
Bob Woodward doesn’t know which story he wants to tell in his latest presidential chronicle. By A.O. Scott As the Nobel Committee gets ready to admit a new writer into the pantheon, our critic ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...
A barrister who wrote a book on sleepwalking has been hauled before a disciplinary tribunal after falling asleep during a coroner’s inquest. The Bar Standards Board (BSB) has accused Ramya ...
A mother of three, who published a children's book about grief after her husband's death, is to stand trial for his murder. Kouri Richins, 34, is accused of fatally poisoning him with a lethal dose of ...