Gothic Literature gained popularity in the late 1700s with the publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. Since ...

Their interests lay in supplying cheap cotton to British mills in return for being a market for factory-made goods from Manchester and Lancashire. As a contemporary economist Henry C. Carey wrote in ...

Given that the popularity of the horror genre is still so prevalent, it begs the question: what is so engaging about horror? Where does it ...

Serendipity refers to happy chances that feel magical and lead to unexpected opportunities. By adopting certain habits, we ...

As Horace Walpole, the fourth earl of Orford, wrote in 1776, “This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.” Given that observation, and provided that saner minds ...

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To commemorate the 220th anniversary of the death of Lord Nelson, over the next year, we will be running a series of articles exploring the life ...

As the most avid collector of his day, Horace Walpole spent more than 50 years amassing one of the world's greatest art collections. Housed at ...

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