The historian Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832-1918) was the first major collector of American documentary materials and the first historian of the Far West. Hubert Howe Bancroft was born in Granville, Ohio, on May 5, 1832. He attended a local academy, was...

Hubert Howe Bancroft was the first historian to produce a comprehensive account of the history of the American Far West. Anticipating the twentieth-century historical school of the "Spanish Borderlands," he included Mexico and Central America in his...

"I was wound up by my mother to work," wrote Hubert Howe Bancroft in his autobiography, Literary Industries (1890), which chronicles his progress from bookseller to book collector, from amateur historian to producer-publisher of the mammoth history...

Es ist weniger die erotische Erscheinung, mit der sie 1967 in "Die Reifeprüfung" den Freund ihrer Tochter kirre machte, als ihr ausdrucksstarkes Gesicht, das in Erinnerung bleibt. Und ihr bis an den Rand der Erschöpfung gehendes Spiel als Lehrerin des taubstummen und blinden Kindes...

Ian Bancroft cared passionately about the integrity and public standing of the British civil service, of which he was head for a truncated period, between 1978 and 1981. Bancroft and Margaret Thatcher were chalk and cheese. He went to the stake on the principle...