This is an autumn of discontent. In September, students in France took to the streets to protest the lack of government support for education. Large numbers of people, aggrieved by the cost-of-living ...
Why do we say ‘touch wood’ after talking about good fortune? The expression has a fascinating history shaped by folklore, old ...
An amateur historian has stumbled upon a provocative clue to the enduring mystery of what became of a notorious pirate who ...
Let's enter an ancient Roman stadium as a spectator. The venues for chariot races, the amphitheaters where gladiators fought, and the theaters. The names of what we see and hear there remain in ...
Before the advent of agriculture and monotheistic religions, humans around the world had a less adversarial relationship to ...
Every year on October 31, the streets of many cities are transformed into scenes from horror movies: houses are decorated ...
This Halloween, trick-or-treaters the world over will don pointy black hats and drag along a broom as they trawl the ...
In 753 BCE something happened to the Sabine Women. Romulus, fresh off of founding Rome, could not make marriages for himself ...
The well-known classicist is bringing her latest touring show, ‘More Secret Histories of Ancient Rome’, to the Cambridge Corn ...
The Diamond Sutra is a Buddhist text of about 6,000 words, and a printed copy dated May 11, 868 AD is the oldest dated ...
Kent’s past and remarkable archaeological discoveries will take centre stage at an event for history lovers and metal ...
When we hear the word famine, we imagine scenes of drought-parched earth, withered crops, and people wandering in search of ...
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