All That Is Not Good
Writing in troubled times, Julian of Norwich realised that consolation only has meaning if it takes pain seriously.
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No Dinner Party
Bringing together revolution’s most ardent theorists and its fiercest critics.
Scotland Too
Scotland’s profiteering and complicity within the British Empire’s transatlantic slave trade.
When Did the Medieval Period End?
As conventional wisdom has it, Europe began to see the light at the end of a dark age sometime around 1500. Four experts try to date the birth of modernity.
Weighing up Galileo’s Evidence
What does it take to establish a new scientific truth? In the case of Galileo and heliocentrism, the death of its sceptics.
Are You Not Entertained?
Hollywood’s golden age was born of the popularity of swords and sandals on the Victorian stage.
Concrete Plans
The architects who adapted to the demands, whims and chicanery of the Stalinist state.
A Worthy Cause?
During the Franco-Prussian War a British wine merchant was imprisoned in Cologne, accused of being a spy. The public clamoured for the government to secure his release, but wartime diplomacy was not so straightforward.