Robespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Robespierre and the Revolution were inseparable: a single inflexible tyrant. But what turned a shy young lawyer into the living embodiment of the Terror at its most violent?
Robespierre was only thirty-six when he died, sent to the guillotine where he had sent thousands ahead of him. Robespierre and the Revolution were ins...
In 1837 Thomas Carlyle published his two-volume work 'The French Revolution' and overnight became a celebrity. Ruth Scurr offers a substantial introduction to Carlyle and his work followed by carefully selected extracts.
In 1837 Thomas Carlyle published his two-volume work 'The French Revolution' and overnight became a celebrity. Ruth Scurr offers a substantial introdu...
You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. The author has seamlessly stitched together John Aubrey's own words to tell his life story and the history of seventeenth-century England.
You may not know his name. Aubrey was a modest man, a gentleman-scholar who cared far more for the preservation of history than for his own legacy. Th...
