This all-new volume sets out the history of the Birmingham, Scottish and regional gunmakers and specialist trade workers throughout the 19th and 20th centuries with individual histories of 60 businesses and where known, details of their serial number records, many of which have never been published before. Similarly there is an alphabetical listing of the businesses and individuals with their dates and addresses and separate listings of the brand names used by them and the patents they reg...

Clarkesworld is a Hugo and World Fantasy Award-winning science fiction and fantasy magazine. Each month we bring you a mix of fiction, articles, interviews and art. Our October 2024 issue (#217) contains:* Original fiction by Abby Nicole Yee ("A Space O/pera"), Nigel Brown ("The Buried People"), Fiona Moore ("The Children of Flame"), Arula Ratnakar ("Fractal Karma"), Louis Inglis Hall ("Fishing the Intergalactic Stream"), Mike Robinson ("Midnight Patron"), and Damián Neri ("The Fac...

Agnes Giberne's anthology "Nigel Browning" invites readers into the heart of 19th-century English fiction with its captivating story of self-discovery and familial duty. In the titular story, "Nigel Browning," we follow the protagonist as he returns to Newton Bury after a year-long global journey. This tale of homecoming is marked by Nigel's emotional reunion with his childhood love, Ethel, and the complex dynamics of family expectations. As Nigel navigates the joys and challenges of retur...

**SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 GILDER LEHRMAN LINCOLN PRIZEFrom the New York Times bestselling presidential biographer comes the greatest untold story of the Civil War: how two American presidents faced off as the fate of the nation hung in the balance—and how Abraham Lincoln came to embrace emancipation as the last, best chance to save the Union.**Of all the books written on Abraham Lincoln, there has been one surprising gap: the drama of how the “railsplitter” from I...

The just war tradition is central to the practice of international relations, in questions of war, peace, and the conduct of war in the contemporary world, but surprisingly few scholars have questioned the authority of the tradition as a source of moral guidance for modern statecraft. Just War: Authority, Tradition, and Practice brings together many of the most important contemporary writers on just war to consider questions of authority surrounding the just war tradition.Authority...

Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic send-up of AI-narrated audiobooks.

A practical, self-help guide for living well with cognitive difficultiesProblems with memory, attention, complex thinking skills, language, speed of thinking and visual perception are remarkably common, and are often experienced by those coping with neurological conditions. These range from acquired brain injuries like stroke and head injury through to deteriorating conditions like Alzheimer's disease. Specific cognitive difficulties are also a common feature of ne...

First-hand accounts of football violence, from infamous Millwall to Man U. Once dubbed 'the English disease', British match-day thuggery has spread right across Europe and beyond. Here is the inside story of that phenomenon from those that were there, taking part in the mayhem. 'Yob Laureate' Dougie Brimson and his brother Eddy offer a compelling description of match-day madness; Colin Ward goes steaming in, while other pieces detail the irresistible aggro of the local Derby, the tragedy i...

The long-awaited autobiography of one of the most respected rugby union referees ever.It's rare for a referee in any sport to be popular, yet Nigel Owens has always courted strong affection throughout the world - loved by the players, coaches, officials, TV commentators and even fans. A real character, some of his famous put-downs whilst lecturing players, such as 'This is Not Soccer', have become huge social media hits.The best rugby referee of his generat...

A visitor from afar can show us who we areBilly Brown lives on a dairy farm in rural East Texas, where nothing exciting ever happens, except in Billy's fertile imagination that soars far beyond his horizon. When Billy's dream of frolicking among the stars comes true, Billy has an "Uh Oh" moment. Billy hangs tenuously from the back of Big Fran, his favorite cow, as Fran is vacuumed inside the tentacle of a spaceship. Billy and Fran are trapped inside the vessel with...

Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic parody of AI-narrated audiobooks.

Aged nineteen, Alison McKelvie was a self-confessed romantic, immersed in books and poetry, and dreaming of beauty, truth and love. In 1940, whilst working as a secretary at MI6, Alison met Alexander Wilson. Thirty years her senior, Alexander was worldly and charismatic. An intense affair quickly led to marriage and two children. But the Wilsons' lives then spiralled into the depths of poverty. Alexander was sacked, imprisoned twice, and then declared bankrupt. His lack of reliability was ...