Lawyers love Jane Austen, disproportionately—often rabidly—so. A leading London jurist once memorably quipped of his devotion: “I read all six of Austen’s books every year, because if I didn’t, I ...

In 1641, with the impending Civil War, The Council of the North was abolished, and the buildings were occupied by a series of military governors owing allegiance to the king, York being a royalist ...

For centuries, the two settlements on either bank of the River Wey, where it reached the sea, were in spasmodic conflict.