Christian - ‘Kit’ - Cavenaugh, born in 1667 in Dublin, grew up on a Leixlip farm. A dragoon in the Marlborough Wars, Kit led an adventurous life, courting women, fighting…

Often called the sport of kings, horse racing dates back at least to the chariot races of the ancient Olympic Games. This book explores the broad history of horse racing…

Anne Bronte, the youngest and most enigmatic of the Bronte sisters, remains a bestselling author nearly two centuries after her death. The brilliance of her two novels - Agnes Grey…

The Holland Lop is the smallest lop-eared rabbit. This adorable dwarf rabbit breed that originated in the Netherlands, and has come to be an incredibly popular pet around the world.

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Edited collection from acclaimed contemporary Woolf scholars, linking link inter- and multidisciplinary scholarship to the intellectual and creative projects of Virginia Woolf and her modernist peers.

During the seventeenth century, Dutch portraits were actively commissioned by corporate groups and by individuals from a range of economic and social classes. Ann Jensen Adams examines four portrait genres…

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

Fairy tales, myths, and legends can help parents teach children important life lessons. Guardian of the Maquis weaves a story about beauty, danger, tragedy, and love that inspires the readers…