Tony Radford – the Coolest Englishman on the Planet

London experienced a cultural and artistic movement in between early 16th and early 17th century which is known as the…

Few modern English readers could enjoy Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Kim’ in the way Kipling intended it to be enjoyed. Kipling…

What non-English-speaking people would have taken the trouble to learn English in 1700? For study and diplomacy, the answer is practically nobody. That had changed by the year 1800: English had become an important language.

London experienced a cultural and artistic movement in between early 16th and early 17th century which is known as the English Renaissance Period. The English Renaissance was much influenced by the pan-European Renaissance which is said to have originated in the 14th century in northern Italy. Often known as the “age of the Shakespeare” or “the Elizabethan era,” the English Renaissance created stimulation in art, architecture, literature and music of whole of England.

In Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy deals with issues of morality in two fundamental ways; one is the…

Englishness is a complex idea and full of contradictions.