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The Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown (1851) is the autobiography of Henry Box Brown (l. c. 1815-1897), who became the most famous fugitive slave of his time when he had himself shipped in a box...

Joseph Stalin's policy to collect private farms into cooperatives and wholly state-owned farms across the USSR began in 1928. Stalin hoped the process of collectivisation would modernise Soviet agriculture...

The term “Fertile Crescent”, coined in 1916 by Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, refers to a broad arc of land stretching from the eastern Mediterranean through Anatolia and into Mesopotamia. Encompassing parts of today’s...

This verraco of a pig is made of granite and dates from the 3rd-1st century BCE. It was created by members of the Vettonian culture of ancient Iberia and was found in the Spanish province of Ávila. Verracos were...

Photograph of one of the houses found in the Halangy Down Village, on St. Mary's in the Isles of Scilly. It is an Iron Age, Romano-British and early Medieval settlement that was inhabited roughly from 300 BCE to 600 CE...

The truth is, men make terrible pigs.' Watch @MillerMadeline read an extract from her new novel #Circe. https://bloomsbury.com/circe-9781408890080/