Controversy over Cecil Rhodes began long before the recent campaign to remove statues of him from the University of Cape Town ...

The main road west from El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur, was abandoned by travellers during the war in the ...

The mummy portraits are stunning. Their production began around 30-40 ce, sixty or so years after the defeat of ...

What was once the paradigmatic catastrophe, the biblical flood, took forty days and forty nights; today’s exemplar is one big ...

The environmental history of European empire doesn’t end with decolonisation. The quasi-colonial schemes of the ...

Among​ the poems Edward Thomas drafted in 1916, shortly before he was posted to France, was ‘As the team’s head-brass’. The poet, seated in the boughs of a fallen elm, watches a ploughman at work ...

The film frame is both Walter Murch’s canvas and his found object. In his editing suite, whether mechanical or ...

On many occasions, Lewis courted beatings and arrest in order to bring attention to the racial mistreatment that was pervasive in the Jim Crow South. In Selma, Alabama, on 7 March 1965, he led ...

A version in Scots of a Sumerian hymn to the goddess of love and war, attributed to the priestess Enheduanna of Ur (fl. 2255 ...

John Heartfield was forced to leave Germany in 1933. Even before the Nazis put him on their hit list, his art had ...

In 2010, I worked as a lawyer for the British passengers on a flotilla trying to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza ...

At sunset on a clear day you can see thirty miles across the Rio de la Plata from Colonia de Sacramento to ...