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The essence of biological complexity is communication – a transmission of information between the component parts of an association. But what is the nature of this information and how do genomes co-operate...
Figure 1: Staffordshire ceramic containers for storing bear’s grease, early 1800s, Royal Pharmaceutical Society Museum, Collection Reference YBC1 and YCB2. One of the most striking exhibits in the...
This year marks the centenary of the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). An event of immense magnitude it not only consolidated the radically new, utopian, state, but delineated...
Why, in 1882, did Harper’s Weekly publish a cartoon by Thomas Nast depicting Oscar Wilde as a mushroom? The question is one that marks the crucial influence of British decadence on the shape of modern...
There are numerous challenges for those who bear the burden of applying restraint to the use of armed force in today’s armed conflicts. Cambridge Author Sigrid Redse Johansen explores the top 10 commandments for military commanders.
Consult any dictionary of slang and you’ll find a definition something like this: a letter sent to a man (usually in uniform) by his girlfriend, fiancée or wife announcing the end of their relationship....
Since at least the 1980’s, any university student who wanted to learn about Freud or psychoanalysis would not be directed to departments of psychology, nor to psychiatry, but would instead be ushered...
By 1200 kingship had become the natural from of government across most of western Europe. A royal title denoted antiquity, legitimacy, and the exemplary adherence to shared norms. It conferred distinction...
This book represents a first attempt inclusively to map out patterns of liturgical and musical culture across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales over a 500-year period. Extending from the eve of the...
Arguably, Daniel Defoe’s Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26) is the single most comprehensive, detailed and insightful guide we have to the state of the nation as it moved into...
In his 1597 play ‘Romeo and Juliet’, William Shakespeare narrates the tragic story of Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. The two young persons are in love, but their families are engaged in a blood...
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