The crusaders were not such incompetent zealots after all
One of the strange effects that modernist, progressive society has had on what the French Annales school would refer to…
For Jack Tar, going to sea was the ultimate adventure
Seafaring and the rule of the waves — as the song would have it — was an integral part of…
The Renaissance in 50 shades of grey
The Mediterranean-centred era spanning a century or so either side of 1492 is filled to the brim with stories. There…
What do we really mean by the ‘language’ of animals?
The reality of animal communication (or, more precisely, our belief in that reality) is a fact underwritten not by science…
All of nature in a village in Norfolk
Walking home from work one day during the half-year I lived in London’s Maida Vale (almost three decades ago now),…
The disaster of Vietnam and the men who can’t get over it
Many wars have outsized and enduring effects on the societies that fight them, but for Americans the Vietnam war has…
