For an academic, hell would be a library an acre wide and 40 feet high, full of books on her area of expertise—but not her book. Yet for that scholar, what discovery, on a back page deep among those ...

IN the long-expected work of which the first part lies before us, Professor Child undertakes to give every existing version of every popular English ballad, together with its comparative history, ...

The Scottish Borders contain key geological evidence that a wide ocean once separated Scotland from England around 420 million years ago. But this evidence is complex, cryptic and obscured by later ...

The poem is set on the border between Scotland and England in the early 1500s. The location is made evident through references to places like “all the wide Border,” “the Eske River,” and “the Solway,” ...