history Archives Page 2 of 2

President Trump, Napoleon and The Eclipse of Dignity

29/12/2016

Does history, art or philosophy offer any survival tips for the incoming US presidency?...

Tastes Like Cabbage: The Deep Origins of Cooked Veggies

23/12/2016

Earliest evidence discovered of plants cooked in ancient pottery ...

Choose Your Ally Carefully. Why Trust the CIA?

18/12/2016

Just because the CIA is saying what we want to hear doesn't make them credible...

Blasting Out of the Vortex: Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism

17/12/2016

From catastrophe comes creativity - Sail into the Vortex....

Look Again: The Way of the Morris

03/10/2016

Forget the decades of Pythonesque ribbing, Morris dancing is deep rooted folk ritual...

Then Wash Your Hands: The Pathogens of Prehistoric Poo

23/07/2016

Ancient feces provides earliest evidence of infectious disease being carried on Silk Road ...

Post-Sanders Disillusionment? Not if You Know Your Democrat History

25/06/2016

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere is speculation that Bernie’s Big Misadventure in the sucker-fleecing, traveling carnival of the Democratic Party Primary...

Yearning for Pet Sounds

02/06/2016

Predating instant gratification by decades, Pet Sounds expresses a yearning which still makes for emotional listening. Essay...

In, Out, Shake it All About. What Politicians Forget About a Unified Europe (Part Two)

05/05/2016

History provides a template for the society we live in. Outside of Europe, Britain would only have its own....

The 1-400 by Terry Kerby, Hawai'i Undersea Research Laboratory University of Hawai'i620

Scuttled, Sunk and, er, Mislaid. The Wreck of the 1-400 Mega-Submarine

22/03/2016

Bronze bell recovered from World War II aircraft-carrying submarine off Oahu coast ...

The Cutpurse Code. Hidden Messages in England’s Oldest Printed Bible

17/03/2016

Historian uncovers secrets of the Reformation hidden in England's oldest printed bible ...

Here Be Treasure! Newly-Discovered Anglo Saxon Island

07/03/2016

Ornate writing tools discovered in a ploughed field lead archaeologists to entire island community...

Was Medieval France (even partly) Islamic? New Evidence Suggests So

27/02/2016

Evidence of likely early medieval Muslim graves found in France ...

David Bowie, Time Travel and a film called Interstellar

29/01/2016

Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope ...

Whipworm, Roundworm, Parasites. What did the Romans ever do for us?

17/01/2016

Roman toilets gave no clear health benefit, and Romanization actually spread parasites ...

Heretic! Religion and Politics, Causing Mayhem for 2000 Years

26/12/2015

Scientists find: Religion and politics led to social tension and conflict, then and now ...

Up Yours? Blame Saint Peter for the Two Fingered Salute

19/09/2015

Ulnar nerve damage caused original benediction sign ...

Exhuming Vampires in Poland. No, REALLY!

30/11/2014

Potential 'vampires' buried in northwestern Poland with sickles and rocks across their bodies were likely local and not immigrants to the region...

Pagan Britain (and Ronald Hutton)

05/11/2014

Qithin the generous limits imposed by the evidence you're free to imagine the past how you like....

What Have the Romans done for Our Teeth?

25/10/2014

The Roman-British population from c. 200-400 AD appears to have had far less gum disease than we have today...

On Troubadours, Sufism and Robert Graves

28/07/2014

The original medieval troubadours, who expounded the art of Courtly Love through poetry and song and who were embroiled with the heretical ideas of gnosticism and Catharism, owed their existence to...

Touring Mbare Township (Part One)

08/01/2014

Comrades in arms separated by the melanin in their skin. Sterling Carter visits the war graves of Mbare, Zimbabwe....

Druids, Magic Mushrooms and Cultural Memory

10/10/2013

Iron Age Druids might have known about and used magic mushrooms even if there's no way of testing it....

Robert Louis Jefferson

06/04/2013

In the late 19th century Journalist and Epic Cyclist Robert Louis Jefferson made some spectacular cycles from London to the Constantinople, Khiva and beyond....

Gangsters and Gunslingers : The American Museum in Britain

23/03/2013

Los Angeles was the last Western boom town – a place where elderly cowboys mingled with celluloid stars on Hollywood backlots. Wyatt Earp ended his days there. Gangsters and Gunslingers, at the...

Hoxton (Alco) Hall

05/12/2012

'mysterious ‘Negro delineators’, trapeze artists, jugglers, singers, performing dogs and the like', Hoxton Hall has moved with the times since 1863....

Tag: history

Latest

Art Prints

Events

Our weekly newsletter

Got a Question?

Latest Articles

Partners

Categories