In the late 19th century Cornish miners began falling ill with a mysterious disease. What caused ‘Dolcoath Anaemia’, and how ...
Though the guise of its festivities may change, November has long been a time for fire, feasting, and remembering the dead.
Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History by Benjamin Moser is a one-dimensional appraisal of the Jewish people’s broken home.
Power, Family and the Making of Modern Britain Miranda Malins contrasts two generations of an English political dynasty: one ...
When an unmarried servant returned home pregnant in the 17th century, women in her community helped her ‘part with child’ – ...
In late 1956 hundreds of thousands of Hungarians joined an uprising against the country’s Moscow-oriented government. 70 ...
For much of its modern history state lotteries were seen as antithetical to Britain’s moral values. The introduction of the ...
On 25 October 1786 the physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg happened upon the aspect ratio for the perfect piece of paper.
O n 8 January 1981 Isabel Allende was living in Venezuela when she learned that her grandfather was dying. A cousin of ...
Incognito investigative journalism was a Victorian invention. What explained its overnight success?
Though the guise of its festivities may change, November has long been a time for fire, feasting, and remembering the dead. The Bayeux Tapestry may be back in England, but it is a Norman artwork. For ...
Roman politics after the Emperor Diocletian abdicated in AD 305 was confusingly complicated as emperors and deputy emperors of the West and of the East contended for power. Among them was Flavius ...
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