
Guillermo Sancho
Guillermo is a History graduate from Birkbeck, University of London, where he studied Modern, Early Modern, and Contemporary History. He wrote his dissertation on Whitehall and the Liberal; government from 1846 to 1852 and its intervention in the Great Irish Famine - Economic Policies, Ideology, and Cultural Change. Other subjects he specializes in are Imperial and Colonial processes and characteristics in the Modern Period; migratory movements of peoples and population transfers from Early Modernity to the Contemporary Period; Ethics from Enlightenment to Environmentalism; and Revolutionary Russia from 1891 to 1991.
Articles by Guillermo Sancho

We know of Sir John Mandeville only through his Medieval piece of travel literature, but who was Mandeville? A traveler, a writer, or did he even exist at all?

Marco Polo was a great merchant; he discovered lands and peoples hitherto unknown to Europe, and he gifted the world with his written account of these places and cultures.
Marco Polo was a great merchant; he discovered lands and peoples hitherto unknown to Europe, and he gifted the world with his written account of these places and cultures.

Marco Polo made an indelible mark in the history of travel writing. He was not, however, the only traveler to the far corners of the world—a comparison with Mandeville.
Marco Polo made an indelible mark in the history of travel writing. He was not, however, the only traveler to the far corners of the world—a comparison with Mandeville.