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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

Edmund Stewart is Assistant Professor in Ancient Greek History at the University of Nottingham

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

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

How Chaucer reshaped English poetry

FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...