In 1553, a community of exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had found refuge and patronage in the northern Italian city of Ferrara did something that would have been unthinkable, and very... Read more »
The number of plays attributed to the 16th-century playwright Thomas Kyd has more than doubled in a major new edition. The forthcoming second volume of The Collected Works of Thomas Kyd makes... Read more »
A rare first edition of JRR Tolkien’s The Hobbit that was found during a house clearance has sold at auction for £43,000. Bought by a private collector in the UK, the book... Read more »
At the height of the Great Terror in 1937, Joseph Stalin took a break from the purges to edit a new textbook on the history of the USSR. Published shortly thereafter, the... Read more »