The Domesday Book - compiled in 1085-6 - is one of the few historical records whose name is familiar to most people in this country. It is our earliest public record, the foundation document of the ...

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Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

The latest work by renowned historian Diarmaid MacCulloch tackles Christian attitudes to sex over the centuries. Modern-day Christians who talk about traditional values usually don’t know how ...

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.

Published More Than 50 Years Ago, ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ Launched a Revolution Maya Angelou’s breakthrough memoir forever changed American literature and helped carve a new space ...

A new exhibition in Dublin showcases historic manuscripts written in Irish monasteries. The show also features medieval ...

Free The Word: Resisting Book Bans Book bans are about fear, control and the desperate need to manage public imagination ...

Best for toddlers ‘Let's Dig! A Book of First Words’ illustrated by Matt Hunt, published by Ladybird Read review ...

I read the world’s longest book with 1.3m words - it changed my way of thinking I read the world's longest book and it's 1.3 million words long.