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Altered States
From Aldous Huxley to cat pictures by Louis Wain: altered states of consciousness can be induced by taking drugs, but they also include dreams, tired…
4 years, 3 months ago
Mélusine
The legend of Mélusine emerges in French literature of the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries in the texts of Jean d’Arras and Coudrette. …
4 years, 3 months ago
Adapting Molière
Do we underappreciate comic writing ? It’s 400 years since the birth of France’s great satirical playwright, Jean-Baptiste Pocquelin, better known by…
4 years, 3 months ago
Appeasement
The conventional view of Neville Chamberlain's dealings with Hitler at the 1938 Munich Conference, paints him as weak and gullible - an appeaser. But…
4 years, 3 months ago
Gloves
From duels to hygiene and medical protection to the image of the gloved aristocrat whose hands aren’t coarsened by work: Shahidha Bari dons a pair of…
4 years, 3 months ago
Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave
Matthew Sweet explores Belmondo's central role in the revolutionary cinema of 1960s France and how he became one of the most celebrated screen actors…
4 years, 3 months ago
Fungi: An Alien Encounter
90% are unknown still but the species which have been studied have given us penicillin, ways of breaking down plastics, food and bio fuels but they c…
4 years, 4 months ago
Colm Toibin; Dullness as a virtue
Sticking in stamps and killing animals were the main achievements of King George V - according to his biographer Harold Nicholson. Now Jane Ridley ha…
4 years, 4 months ago
Early Buddhism; Sheila Rowbotham
Helping start the Women's Liberation Movement in Britain is just one of the key moments in Sheila Rowbotham's life. This year she published Daring to…
4 years, 4 months ago
Witchcraft and Margaret Murray
From unwrapping Egyptian mummies to her theories about witch trials and the influence of her 1921 book The Witch-Cult in Western Europe on Wicca beli…
4 years, 4 months ago