From the printing press to the internet, the spread of information has changed the world. How do we recognise an age defined ...
In 1943 letters reporting starvation and death in Bengal began to reach Indian soldiers serving the British overseas. Despite ...
The Victorian reading public had access to a vast array of classical literature from Asia in multiple translations by experts ...
A History of Sacrifice from the Sacred to the Secular by Jonathan Sheehan places bloodletting at the heart of Western thought ...
The final fraudulent Cottingley fairies photograph was taken on 21 August 1920 by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths.
Born in the Ukraine in 1879 and later hailed by one admirer as the greatest Jew since Jesus Christ, Lev Bronstein became famous under another name. From 1902 he called himself Trotsky, adapted from ...
On 4 August 1626 three ships dropped anchor in the road off the leeward coast of St Christopher (St Kitts) in the Caribbean. A hundred English settlers rowed ashore, come to make their fortunes in ...
Locals called the area ‘La Cività’; a clue, perhaps. It was proposed as the site of Pompeii as early as 1637, but formal digs did not begin until 1748. The site’s value was as a source of antiquities ...
Nest after buzzing nest of heresy was smoked out by the Roman Catholic church in 12th and 13th century Europe. The Waldensians, Cathars and other groups had inherited the dualism of the gnostic sects ...
When her fleet of galleys and cargo ships left Calais the 18-year-old Queen of Scots and Dowager Queen of France burst into floods of tears as she said farewell to ma chère France and sailed on a ...
In April 1550, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and king of Spain, halted Spanish conquests in the Americas. He had scruples; could they be overcome? A panel of over a dozen theologians, officials and ...
The potential implications of Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection did not sit well with Victorian gender mores – or with Darwin himself. For more than 150 years Charles Darwin’s theory of ...
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