John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers by Jean Strouse; John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits by Richard Ormond ...

Some modern scholars believe these to be forgeries written later in antiquity, designed to give the otherwise shadowy figure ...

One of the more peculiar experiences of my early twenties has been realising that my mother was also once a young woman and ...

Keith Houston’s history of emojis reveals that explicit images as well as political provocations, flagrant brand ...

When Churchill declared victory, the young people of the church paraded a full-size effigy of Adolf Hitler to the green and ...

According to the American academic William Kelleher Storey, Rhodes was able to go a long way towards realising his vision ...

Annual global population growth is now just over a third of the peak level reached in the 1960s and the rate is falling fast.

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