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 ...

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?

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.

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

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 ...

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

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, ...

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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.