Jonathan Gaisman is a KC and a writer on cultural topics

Tennyson’s embrace of science and catastrophe theory

What the West owes to the ancient world

All serious scholarship on ancient Sparta has to be conducted within the penumbra of the ‘mirage Spartiate’, a French term coined in 1933 to describe the problem posed by idealised accounts of Sparta.

Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found Andrew Graham-Dixon ...

Shamanism across many cultures