Monthly Archives: June, 2025

A Medieval Life: Cecilia Penifader and the World of English Peasants Before the Plague (Judith M. Bennett)

History is the story of what resulted from the acts of great men, directly and indirectly, buffeted by fortune. Thus, in the Middle Ages,...

Sons of the Waves: The Common Seaman in the Heroic Age of Sail (Stephen Taylor)

Among the first books I read, when around five years of age, were some written by my great uncle, Charles Frye Haywood, after whom...