Fighting talk

Carthage burned for six days. After three long years of siege, in the spring of 146 BC Roman soldiers finally broke through the city’s defences and began to slaughter the population. But still the Car

Your interesting feature about the role of medieval warhorses in shaping British history (August) reminded me of a subsequent occasion in which horsepower became a critical factor. In April 1660, with

The cut-throat politics of Syracuse informed Plato’s thinking

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What supernatural folklore reveals about human nature

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries