Author: Geoffrey Pimm

Although the worlds of science and philosophy took giant strides away from the medieval view of the world, attitudes to women did not change from t...

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are the gateway between the medieval world and the modern, centuries when the western societies moved from...

Samuel Pepys is popularly known as the founder of the modern navy, a member of the Royal Society and most of all, as a unique and frank diarist. Le...