The news that was fit to print

From print to AI, any major innovation in communication technology follows much the same trajectory. We start with technological fascination, which generates a massive influx of development capital, o

When gossip and rumour led to the trial of two Prussian pastors

Samuel Pepys’s self-incriminating diaries

From miasma to miracles: how medieval medicine desperately battled the bubonic plague

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

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