Jamestown

A treatise on greed: The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff reviewed

16 September 2023 9:00 am

The American author turns her attention to colonial injustice in a tale about a servant girl who flees a blighted English settlement in 17th-century Jamestown

new world

The myth of the ‘stolen country’

24 September 2020 1:23 pm

Last month, in the middle of the COVID panic, a group of freshmen at the University of Connecticut were welcomed…

‘The Arrival of the Pilgrims Fathers’, 1864, Antonio Gilbert (oil on canvas)

Crossing the pond

8 July 2017 9:00 am

What led a person in 17th-century England to get on a ship bound for the Americas? James Evans attempts to…