Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and fight for women's right to vote. Sarah Fabiny has written several Who Was? titles, including biographies of Beatrix Potter, Frida...
A clearly decent prelate who was deceived Three biographies had been written on the Archbishop of Canterbury but he wanted something more personal as a summing up, writes Penelope DeningPENELOPE DENING
In the last few years, there has been a very welcome increase in the participation of women in all areas of research, also in this area. This increase in women's par- ticipation is most certainly due to better children care facili- ties in many countries and to a better general ...
Local media in Zibo said the number of passengers arriving and leaving through Zibo railway station has reached 50,000 a day, setting a record in the past three years, with most of them being tourists who come to taste Zibo barbecue....
In the study by Hail-Jares and Vichta-Ohlsen (2023), Sandra, a young woman who has previously been in state care recounted that her spending time away from her authorised placement enabled her some control over where she lived, a decision that she had previously not been able to ...
The Bible today is the same as what was originally written. Some people have the idea that the Bible has been translated "so many times" that it has become corrupted through stages of translating. That would probably be true if the translations were being made from other translations. But tr...
Charlie Chaplin holds a record for being thefilm star with the most biographies, with over 259 book-length works written about him. 1961 – John F. Kennedy The Queen met 13 of the last 14 US presidents during her life (Lyndon B. Johnson was the unlucky one who missed out). ...
There are dozens of biographies written on evangelist Billy Graham, including his impressive 800 page autobiography, and hundreds more written on different aspects of his life and ministry. Why would another biography on this important figure be necessary?Igniting the Fireoffers an in-depth look at...
Happiest in his garden, he's loves Shakespeare, paints watercolors and has written children's books. He can be fun but also short-tempered and demanding, the former aide said. LIFE OF LUXURY? Official figures show his recent overseas tours were the most expensive taken by the r...
Yet its influence as such is rarely remarked upon; for the most part it has either remained invisible or unproblematically conflated with a vague image of 'Western' society as a homogenized foil to depictions of 'otherness'. Our volume seeks to fill this lacuna by exploring how 'we' are ...