Our sense of smell helps us to keep a few shreds of privacy intact and maintains a dividing line between real and virtual worlds

It was a hot August day when my students read a recipe “To Make Pistacho Cream” from Lady Elizabeth Craven’s receipt book out loud, letter by letter, on their first day of class. …

On Howard Staunton’s photozincographic facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio

Convincing the British public to pay higher taxes for something they wrongly assume the state provides will not be easy

The Society's autumn lecture programme offers lectures by six leading historians working in British, European and world history. The autumn lecture programme begins on Friday 25 September and runs to ...

Wikipedia turns 25 this year. Its success was not a given and reveals much about our changing relationship with information online.

YouTube video by Museum Plantin-Moretus

Paul will take up his new role on 4 November 2026.

Since 2012, the number of humanities majors has plunged as students chased degrees with what looked like guaranteed career payoffs. But the job market has changed.

For more than a century, the Met Office's National Meteorological Archive has held a treasure trove of historical weather data, some of it dating back to 1837. Now, thanks to a major project, tens of ...

Under the Palestinian enclave’s rubble are papers showing to whom the land belongs

Grammy award-winning American artist selected as 13th person to submit written work to Oslo-based project

Felipe De La Hoz on how NYU used to be

World powers gather to decide how to deal with potential threat to colonising Earth’s nearest celestial neighbour

A scientific and civilizational horror story.