Marian Boswall seeks design inspiration in classic and new gardening texts

Bernard Mandeville’s defence of private vices with public benefits

While the original National Folklore Survey from the 1960s was unscientific and open ended, simply asking random people “what do you know to be true?”, its 21st century successor is a very different b

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A Marxist polemic against analytic philosophy

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