The past is never dead, it isn’t even past
Sudhir Hazareesingh is the winner of the 2021 Wolfson History Prize for his book, Black Spartacus, the Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture. This article is taken from the first issue of Aspects of History. The Haitian revolution was one of the defining episodes in...
The Wolfson History Prize 2021 Rebecca Clifford Rebecca, congratulations on your nomination for the Wolfson History Prize of 2021 from Aspects of History. Why did you choose your particular subject? This is a two-pronged answer. Most important prong, I’ve worked with...
The seeds of the German nation, nursed into being by the wily statesman Bismarck, were sown in Prussia’s humiliation in the Napoleonic Wars. By the time the fragmented German states got their act together, fought back and won at Leipzig in 1813, the journey to...
Charles Dickens: As I Knew Him, by George Dolby. An account of Dickens by his sometime manager which is intimate and moving.
The Best of Mrs. Beeton's Cakes and Baking, by Isabella Mary Beeton. For lovers of the Great British Bake Off.
General Butler in New Orleans: A History of the Administration of the Department of the Gulf in the Year 1862, by James Parton
Hard Tack and Coffee: A Classic Civil War Memoir, by John D Billings. Billings’ account of the everyday life of a U.S. Army soldier.
Life Among the Apaches, by John C. Cremony. A classic in American West literature describing one man's experiences with American Indians.
Four Years in the Stonewall Brigade, by John O. Casler. An account of a soldier in the Confederate army during the American Civil War.
Six Months in the Gold Mines, by E Gould Buffum. From a journal of Three Years' Residence in Upper and Lower California.
