Pigeon Racing: A Miner’s World?
Men who spent their working lives underground found a new world of freedom in racing birds.
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On the Spot: Shadi Bartsch
‘Classics is the playing field for some very important questions.’
The Dead Christ
Holbein the Younger’s image still startles 500 years after its creation.
Inventor of Jigsaw Puzzle Dies
John Spilsbury, the engraver behind the ‘dissected’ map, died on 3 April 1769.
Uncomfortable History
Japan’s responsibility for ‘comfort women’ is avoided by the state and written out of national histories. Activists are working to make Japan confront its past.
A Radical Pocket Book
A miniature Emancipation Proclamation helped to recruit Black soldiers during the Civil War.
Time’s Changing Tempo
A great European novel says much about its age of crisis – and ours.
Life after Death in Ancient Egypt
Despite the belief of their Pharaohs, not every ancient Egyptian was convinced of the certainty of an eternal afterlife.
The Autograph Fiend
There was no known remedy available to help those afflicted with ‘autographomania’. Spreading far and wide in the late 19th century, the obsession with collecting autographs held ‘all sorts and conditions of men in its deadly grip’.