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 ...
Schoolboys forget their books, lose their pens and laugh at dirty jokes. This was true even in the rigorous atmosphere of the Anglo-Saxon classroom. As with all things relating to Anglo-Saxon England, ...
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.
The monumental city of Persepolis was the pride of the Persian empire until its destruction by fire. Richard Stoneman revisits its builders, Darius and Xerxes, and their role in its construction. In ...
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?
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