Elena Vanden Abeele investigates the functions, symbols and hidden meanings behind the parsol in the 19th century.
By David Barnes With President Obama’s intervention in the British EU Referendum debate still fresh in the mind, it’s worth…
By Eva Pascal What do Buddhist monks and Christian friars have in common? Quite a bit, in fact. While travelling…
By Claire White In France, the turn of the millennium ushered in a bold, and controversial, act of legal reform…
By Deanna Ferree Womack Images of Islam abound these days, and many of them are troubling. Those who speak loudly…
By Andy Mousley I sometimes wonder which of Shakespeare’s characters most closely resembles Shakespeare himself: ambitious Macbeth? brooding Hamlet? the…
By Bill Angus If you have ever wondered what was really going on in the secret overhearing and tacit observations,…
By Sean McEvoy William Shakespeare died four hundred years ago. We know he departed this life on 23 April 1616…
By Kevin Curran, University of Lausanne What is it about Shakespeare’s writing that makes it endure? Why do his plays and poems…
By Anna Clark It is widely assumed that the concept of human rights only emerged after 1945. However, I have…