Hesperus

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The housing association installed the locks, designed to improve security in the block on Hesperus Crossway following a Police Scotland recommendation, in November last year.

From BBC • Jun. 30, 2025

Their own party looks like the wreck of the Hesperus.

From Fox News • Feb. 4, 2020

Hesperus is no doubt courting controversy by picking the reviled human-rights violator’s work as the first title for its imprint focusing on “Eastern” literature, the Guardian notes.

From Washington Post • Jul. 12, 2016

Now, to celebrate its 10-year anniversary, Hesperus is asking members of the public to nominate a work of literature currently out of print and explain why it's worthy of republication.

From The Guardian • May 24, 2012

Gladstone’s first ships, the Whitby, carrying 249 passengers, and the Hesperus, car-rying 244, sailed for Demerara in 1838.

From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson