Of all the attempts throughout history to geographically locate the Garden of Eden one of the most compelling was that set out by minister a...

p> Heather Tweed explores the story of the woman whose obsessive penchant for the lawsuit struck fear into the magistrates and cabmen of ...

Jonathan Lamb explores the genre of ‘it-narratives’ – stories told from the point of view of an object, often as it travels in circulation t...

Arika Okrent explores the rise and fall of Volapük – a universal language created in the late 19th century by a German priest called Johann ...

With his enormous range of scholarly pursuits the 17th-century polymath Athanasius Kircher has been hailed as the last Renaissance man and “...

In 1911 the soon-to-be poet laureate Robert Bridges published the poems of Digby Mackworth Dolben, a school friend who had drowned to death ...

After returning from his disastrous mission to central Africa to rescue a German colonial governor, the explorer Henry Morton Stanley was e...

To mark the 200th year since the Brothers Grimm first published their Kinder-und Hausmärchen , Jack Zipes explores the importance of this ne...