What does it mean to think about matter and materiality through the medium of letterpress printing?  We invite scholars of matter, materiality and/or material culture (broadly conceived) in any ...

Reviewed by Harriet, 7 Jan 2025 When I was young, I spent several summers in Stratford-upon-Avon. My parents were working at the theatre there, so I was fortunate to be allowed to sit quietly at th…

In a time of uncertainty, scholars seek a return to the fundamentals.

It is well known that the Christian and now secularized holiday over the end of the year, the notion of twelve days of Christmas, owes something to the Roman festivities, the Saturnalia, that start…

Widespread use of metal caused estimated 2- to 3-point drop in IQ for nearly 180 years of Pax Romana Apart from sanitation, medicines, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what did the Romans ever do…

As far back as Aristotle, Western thinkers have been deeply critical of the power that the wealthy hold over society. Historian Guido Alfani sat down with Jacobin to discuss the long history of opposi...

A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.