Margaret Spufford's interest in literacy, and particularly in the ability to read, which laid the villager open to all sorts of external influences other than those coming from the pulpit and the ...

Abby Reinhard is a writer, editor, and native Jersey Girl. Before Best Life, she was working in medical writing, ...

The Economic History Review, Vol. 72, Issue. 4, p. 1451. A collection that celebrates the research of Margaret Spufford, a "game-changing" historian who shifted the focus away from the political and ...

1944: Five young lives are ended in a south London Woolworths. But what of their possible futures? What if? Francis Spufford's second novel read by Jamie Parker.

A cluster of women and children in a south London Woolworths, 1944 and a V2 rocket heading towards them. If the rocket had not hit, how would they have lived their lives?

Cahokia Jazz, British writer Francis Spufford’s third novel, is a smoky, brooding noir set in the 1920s, but not an entirely ...

Forty-six books (23 fiction, 23 nonfiction) have been selected for the longlist for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medals for ...

7. Reinhart, C. and K. Rogoff (2009), This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Princeton (Princeton University Press). 8. Spufford, P. (1991): Money and its Use in Medieval Europe, ...

Here are the best crime novels of 2024 so far. By Sarah Weinman In Francis Spufford’s new novel, “Cahokia Jazz,” a detective must solve the mystery of a staged killing before its ...

Everyone knows by now that a virus can bring a nation to its knees — the tiny terrorists of smallpox, Spanish flu and COVID-19 have disrupted America’s story in lethal and tragic ways.