This November, we’re spotlighting an extraordinary item from our stock which documents firsthand the Passchendaele battlefield from the point of view of a British Observation Officer. An enthralling and highly unusual survival from the Great War: a fine ...
In a recent interview, Margaret Atwood speculated that the world we currently live in is not a million light years away from the dystopias such as those we might find in her fiction. Her MaddAddam trilogy ...
The story of the Great War tends to be told from the perspective of large-scale historical events – more personal stories are often overshadowed by the strategy, the battles, the victories and defeats. It has ...
by Sammy Jay. Collecting literature of the Great War has never been so timely. After the recent centenary commemorations, the war has acceded into the halls of History proper, and yet at the same ...
“Here is something entirely new and dynamic, and yet still almost as mysterious and inexplicable as death itself. Never before have battles been fought six miles above the surface of the earth at a speed ...
One of the most famous propaganda images of the Second World War, this photo of Winston Churchill with a Thompson sub-machine gun, or Tommy gun, was taken while the Prime Minister was inspecting a coastal ...
Currently re-igniting the Shakespeare authorship controversy is Roland Emmerich’s new movie Anonymous, which posits that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare’s plays. With the filmmakers presenting themselves as “iconoclastic heroes of intellectual honesty” (Syme), and ...
Among the joys of cataloguing rare books and historical materials are the serendipitous moments of discovery and connection. We recently obtained a mysterious set of 27 photographs related to the atomic bomb used on Hiroshima, ...
One of the most rewarding aspects of the book trade is acting as a matchmaker between cultural institutions and historically significant items. At Peter Harrington we recently had the pleasure of securing a unique item ...
Marching As To War is our fifth e-catalogue, comprising 90 items on warfare throughout history. Below is a small selection. VILLARI, Luigi. Fire and Sword in the Caucasus. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906 [50665] Octavo. ...
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