a Curiosity to taste the Juice, or Matter contain’d in one of the little Cystis’s or Glands of the same, which he did by ...

Unreason reigned supreme in Zurich on 5 February 1916 as Dada made its debut at the Cabaret Voltaire. B y February 1916 Lenin was staying in a shabby quarter of Zurich. He lived next to a butcher’s on ...

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In Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, Matthias Egeler follows the huldufólk from the wild places of ...

Willis prescribed a vomit and ordered his patient to keep to a ‘strict diet’, forgoing her strange cravings. The definition ...

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.

The annexation of Cyprus was more than another milestone in Roman expansion – it was a showcase of political theatre. In the ...

What language did the Romans speak? Latin was used throughout the Roman Empire, but it shared space with a host of other languages and dialects... A stela with Oscan inscription from Pompeii, first ...

At the end of the Cold War, Russia and the West seemed set on a path towards cooperation. Why did it veer into renewed ...

Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding goes where few historians dare: south of ...

The concept of the Reformation as a discrete event, with a beginning and an end, is a relatively belated development. For ...

The 20th century’s most famous apostle of non-violence himself met a violent end. Mohandas Mahatma (‘the great soul’) Gandhi, who had taken a leading role in spearheading the campaign for independence ...