A fully illustrated guidebook to Northumberland, including a gazeteer, maps and more than 200 photographs

Our regular Philosophy in the Bookshop series this month features Kate Kirkpatrick on Simone De Beauvoir and French existentialism.

Maundy Money was given to 76 men and women during the service, chosen for their work in the community.

A 15th-century stucco Madonna and Child, hidden for over 70 years, has undergone a dramatic restoration in Florence. Once discoloured and forgotten, the sculpture now reveals its original colours and…

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The launch of Radio 4’s Invisible Hands series has been both blessed and cursed by timing. It tells the story of Britain’s ‘free market revolution’, just as President Donald Trump overhauls the free…

Iris Murdoch, along with Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, and Mary Midgley, was one of the so-called Quartet of Oxford philosophers. Most famous for her novels, Murdoch also made hugely important co...

Inmates in several prisons given chance to study ethics and rhetoric ‘to inform contemporary life’ and skills A classical education, once the preserve of Eton, Oxbridge and the likes of Boris Johnson, is being made available to inmates serving time in prisons. In a break from the kind of curriculum usually on offer inside – lessons in literacy, numeracy, tiling and decorating – a small number of prisoners are being offered the opportunity to learn life skills from the ancient philosophers. Continue reading...

Was preventing beer spillage significant enough to be deemed a miracle? Surprisingly, for one seventh-century writer, it was!

Data indicates more scholars turning to alternative social media site to post about their work after Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover

Something of an overview of the history of India between the 11th and 18th centuries, this book examines a number of topics related to society and culture. The focus is often how the rulers of the…