Barber surgeon

Mr Dear is hair today, and gone tomorrow

The repeated rise and fall of the tattoo

Settling a dispute with swords, pistols and, if legend is to be believed, sausages and guitars, has long been a matter of honour even among modern-day rock stars, discovers John F. Müller

July’s magazine featured a review of Max Hastings’s book Sword: D-Day Trial by Battle, alongside an iconic photograph of British troops. That image has featured so many times in articles and TV shows

When skirts, tights and frills were the hallmarks of masculinity

Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa