‘Home is homely, though it be poore in sight,’ wrote J.Heywood in 1546. Heywood is an obscure author but many people today will agree with him, having
Few historical figures have left such a lasting impression on such a variety of cultures as Alexander the Great.
Seamus Heaney’s poems are a valuable, moving register of individual intimacy and national pain.
Georgius Agricola’s De Re Metallica gives us a fascinating insight into the late medieval view of metal and its uses.
Cricket was one of the few sports that was played near-normally this summer – its modern form is a welcome emblem of global connection.
The Camden Town Group capture both the claustrophobia and possibilities of domestic life.
The pandemic has forced us all to live more wholesome lives, but some danger still exists between the pages of the novel.
Evelyn Waugh’s humour is sparkling and amusing, but with its anti-authority jibes and social commentary it is more than just a light laugh.
The classical essay – with all its ease, polished prose, and trivial subjects – is a medium we would do well to re-capture.
The folkloric atmosphere suggested by a title like Once Upon a Time in Iraq a landmark documentary on the long catastrophe of Saddam’s atrocities, the US-led
Milton would have been very active on Twitter. In 1644 – at the height of the English Civil War – he wrote Areopagitica: a polemic prose treatise
In my childhood home in Edinburgh, I remember a portrait hanging in the dining room of a dour looking man swathed in a tartan plaid
On Saturday, pubs re-opened in England. It was a day politicians had dubbed ‘super Saturday’, although much of the press hailed it ‘sardine Saturday’. A
If, as Tom Holland wrote last week for Engelsberg Ideas, the spectre of the empty metropolis haunts civilisation, then our empty cities are also haunted
What do Dolly Parton, U2, and Woodie Guthrie have in common? Respectively, each artist has had a song used on the American Presidential campaign trail:
In the opening scenes of First Man, Neil Armstrong is piloting the X-15 in the early 1960s. He temporarily loses control of NASA’s hypersonic rocket
The mantra ‘following the science’ has become a commonplace of the coronavirus vocabulary. And indeed, social distancing represents a virtually unparalleled opportunity for scientists to
Normally, in mid-June, the fields of Salisbury Plain are filled with pagans, druids, and tourists watching the dawn of the longest day of the year
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