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

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.

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 ...

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

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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 ...

The Ministry of Time is her debut novel, widely acclaimed as exciting, clever, funny and gripping - ‘a little time-bomb of a book’ according to the writer Francis Spufford. It was shortlisted ...

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, Cambridge et al.