For all of her self-interest and avarice, Madame Restell does seem to have had one great and almost unheard-of quality in a 19th-century abortionist: she did not make a habit of killing her clients.
Our first stop in east Las Vegas was drenched in ersatz gore: fake zombie limbs, scattered femurs, a plastic skull.
As sparks fly up from the welding rods, the beak of a bald eagle emblazoned on the welder’s mask curves menacingly towards the viewer. With comic-book subtlety the image screams: American industrial ...
There comes a moment when people realise that all these manifestations of ‘liberal values’ are cover for what is happening on the ground. The number of signatories to the boycott open letter has now ...
When Verdi’s Nabucco was first performed in 1842, Milanese audiences were quick to see their own situation under Austrian ...
At the beginning of the 20th century, the French ‘drank substantially more than any other people in the world’.
Analogies with 20th-century fascism are not particularly helpful for understanding our times, but one parallel ...
On budget day, Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England, from the black and white squares of the ‘reckoning cloth’ to logarithmic ...
The great auk was a flightless, populous and reportedly delicious bird, once found widely across the rocky outcrops of the North Atlantic. By the 1860s it was extinct, its decline sharpened by ...
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