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“Red-headed women buck like goats” – Buck Mulligan in James Joyce, Ulysses For the full story, see NR Scott, An Esoteric History of Red Hair (2018) – featured on YouTube. Also a massive compendium in

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...

“Hands of Saint Dominic” by Albrecht Dürer, 1506; ...

Spontaneous human combustion is one of those alleged fortean phenomena that despite being roundly damned by professional sceptics such as the late Joe Nickell (whose obituary will follow in a future i

Ring of Fire focuses on the period between the mobilisations of July 1914 and the battle of the Marne in the first half of September that year, telling the story of the frantic opening period of the w

This year is the 350th anniversary of the Great Fire of Northampton. John Goodall looks at the determined response to this disaster and the rebuilding of the town