“the romans were nasty thugs – but so was everyone else in the ancient world”

The British Imagination: A History of Ideas from ...

On 20 March 44 BC, a violent death in Rome was about to send assembled masses into uproar – sparking pandemonium that threatened to engulf the city. The incident described by the ancient biographer Su

A personal approach to the Renaissance

Although we may imagine the bathing practices of our ancestors to be few and far between, in fact there exists a longstanding love story between bathing and the British Isles. This tale begins with th

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