On the Feast of Saint Monday

Dreading the return of the working week is a behaviour with a long…

The Light of Lost Days

The ‘black and white days’ have a distance that is diminished by colour. When that colour is real, the effect is like time travel.

The Bones of Atapuerca

A collection of old bones in Spain tells us our human story, both good and bad

Among God’s Primates

When Jane Goodall went to observe a community of chimpanzees she didn’t…

The Franz Müller Incident

How the first murder on the British railway led to a transatlantic chase…

When We Were Martians

The War of the Worlds tells the story of an invasion from Mars. But were Wells’…

On Looking into the Oldest Eyes

The advent of photography allowed us to capture the world around us…

Moeriscus Opens a Gate

Enduring a brutal siege proved too much for one man in ancient Sicily, and the…

Champagne by Gaslight

Nocturnal delights abound at Kate Hamilton’s, Victorian London’s most notorious…

Sherlock Holmes MD

When aspiring writer Arthur Conan Doyle needed a compelling new character, he cast his mind back to his encounter with a…