George Washington University Law School is pleased to invite applications for the Richard & Diane Cummins Legal History Research Grant for 2014. The Cummins Grant…
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Four hundred and fifty years ago this month, on 6 August 1563, a Scottish Protestant radical called John Willock sat in judgement as Superintendent of…
Comments closed(Images of Bede and George Buchanan courtesy of Wikipedia Commons) According to the Venerable Bede, the language that linked the varied peoples who inhabited Britain…
Comments closedQ. D. Leavis famously scorned detective fiction as one of the evils of the modern world. Other guardians of “high” culture have likewise despised it. The…
Comments closedOn 25 July 1603, James VI was crowned King of England. A “cradle king” in Scotland, he proved to be a moderate and wise monarch,…
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