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The Return of the Horned God

Until the nineteenth century, the favourite ancient pagan gods in...

Hospital for seafarers

Gordon Cook, Visiting Professor, University College London

Discovering Australia: The legend and the reality of the navigator-explorer Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders is remembered as one of Britain’s greatest navigator-explorers...

If we do not survive death, is it irrational to feel dismay?

One answer is that even our infant selves have not...

Unwelcome Guests: Human Diseases

Shakespeare wrote of island Britain as 'This fortress built by...

The American Presidency: Ronald Reagan

Ronald Reagan saw it as his task to restore American...

God meets Mammon: The Financing of the New Cathedral

St. Paul's is perhaps the greatest building to have emerged...

Anglo-American relations: Where we are, and how we got there

Is space finite?

Polio: A Cultural History

Polio has a major role in the cultural history of...