N o premodern poet praised coffee with greater passion than the North African jurist-poet Abu al-Fath al-Tunisi (d.1576). As ...

Rather than a catalogue of a fanciful past, Folklore: A Journey Through the Past and Present by Owen Davies and Ceri ...

a Curiosity to taste the Juice, or Matter contain’d in one of the little Cystis’s or Glands of the same, which he did by ...

In Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld, Matthias Egeler follows the huldufólk from the wild places of ...

The annexation of Cyprus was more than another milestone in Roman expansion – it was a showcase of political theatre. In the ...

Confronted by a confusing and complex national history, Polish novelist Olga Tokarczuk decided to embrace myth rather than ...

Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding goes where few historians dare: south of ...

Unreason reigned supreme in Zurich on 5 February 1916 as Dada made its debut at the Cabaret Voltaire. B y February 1916 Lenin was staying in a shabby quarter of Zurich. He lived next to a butcher’s on ...

Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost. Preservation only began when film came to be seen as art.

'Old John of Gaunt, time-honoured Lancaster', who breathed his last in Leicester Castle on February 3rd, 1399, at the age of fifty-eight, was the son of Edward III, the brother of the Black Prince, ...

Adolf Hitler was not elected to power in Germany by an overwhelming upsurge of popular demand. The Nazi Party certainly achieved substantial support, winning 37 per cent of the total vote in the 1932 ...

Albert Speer’s plan to transform Berlin into the capital of a 1,000-year Reich would have created a vast monument to misanthropy. In 1937 Hitler’s architect Albert Speer was given the task of ...