• Landscape view looking out across a large body of water. Land is just visible on the horizon, there is a line of trees on the shore, and in the immediate foreground there is a rough stone wall.

Marley's-ghost

Christmas hauntings

Catherine Belsey discusses our love for ghost stories. Follow her on a spine-tingling journey of our facination with Christmas hauntings.

cover detail from Evolution Before Darwin

Henry H. Cheek

Bill Jenkins introduces us to the short life and tragic death of Henry H. Cheek, a pre-Darwinian evolutionist. At the University of Edinburgh In many popular accounts of the theory of evolution the reader could be forgiven for coming away…