Fantasy and failure

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

It was a raucous scene, as Jacobean banquets tended to be. Men and women of the court, one observer recalled, “rolled in intoxication”. Even the most temperate had collapsed into “brutish delights”, l

Ancient India gave the world its number system, anticipated Galileo’s heliocentric theory by a millennium and spread its culture from Egypt to Siberia–only to be almost entirely forgotten. It’s past time to restore it to its rightful place in history

The shared struggles of Hieronymous Bosch, Max Beckmann and William Kentridge

Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth ...

ILLUMINATORS THE ART OF THE SCRIBE Practical ...