Mary Chamberlain’s groundbreaking oral history turns 50. This new edition of Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village invites reflection on half a century of change.

This invokes many references to architectural details from Homer’s account of Odysseus’ eventual homecoming: the threshold, where the goddess Athena, descending from Olympus, alighted; the entrance ...

It is this question that Ayoush Lazikani – a literary scholar rather than a historian of science – sets out to address in The Medieval Moon. This is a rich and multifaceted cultural history across the ...