Democracy was enshrined in Roman currency.
American Numismatic Society
Fighting for voter access is an inevitable part of any democracy, from ancient Rome to the US today. Roman legislators were able to thwart elite political sway by introducing written ballots.
State Library of South Australia
I recently visited four historic houses in Victoria that are open to the public to get a better understanding of women who worked from home.
Noel Fielding in The Completely Made-up Adventures of Dick Turpin.
Apple+
Not the dandy highwayman of popular imagination, Dick Turpin was a violent and, according to records, ugly criminal.
Tony Curran (centre) as James I and Nicholas Galitzine (right) as George Villiers.
Rory Mulvey/Sky UK
It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
Class, gender and religion influenced health care in early modern Spain and Latin America.
Diego Velázquez/The National Gallery
Early modern societies in Latin America and Spain saw a convergence of traditional medical knowledge and the professionalization of medicine. The resulting differences in access to care endure today.
Met Museum/National Portrait Gallery
What changing artistic depictions of women’s alopecia tells us about hair loss today.
University of Iowa guard Caitlin Clark celebrates after making the game-winning shot against Michigan State on Jan. 2, 2024.
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Before being pushed aside by the NCAA, the AIAW, which was designed for and by women, governed women’s college athletics.
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Being unable to agree on a united national memorial shows just how disunited Wales had been.
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Pope Gregory XIII was patron of Rome’s renaissance, and a legal luminary whose influence transcends the ages.
EPA/Everett Kennedy Brown
One of the earliest known references to asbestos may come from Theophrastus, a student of Aristotle and his successor at the Lyceum in Athens.
A farmer paddles to his fields on an artificial island among canals, part of an ancient Aztec system known as chinampas, in 2021.
AP Photo/Marco Ugarte
Agricultural sustainability is as much about power and sovereignty as it is about soil, water and crops.
Police find bog body dated over 2,000 years in Bellaghy.
Police Service of Northern Ireland
The bog does not neatly divide traces of the distant and recent past. Archaeology and forensic science still have much to learn from each other.
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Conservative critics argue the ‘social responsibility’ of business lies in increasing profits. But values have always been tied up with money-making, from the welfare state to colonialism.
Bleeker Street
A thrillingly accurate Stone Age horror, a violent Chilean wester, a sumptuous food romance, a comforting rom-com and a new look at a master painter’s love of fashion.
Studio of Joshua Reynolds/National Portrait Gallery/Wikipedia
When parliament blocked a radical MP from taking his seat in parliament, Burke warned that ignoring the people’s democratic will could have disastrous consequences.
(Left to right) A Roman shield, a copper alloy Roman legionary helmet, an iron sword with gilded bronze scabbard, a suit of parade armour made from crocodile skin and a bronze head depicting the first Roman emperor, Augustus.
Yale University Art Gallery/British Museum
There are some incredible rare finds on show at this exhibition but it fails to depict a more diverse life in and around Rome’s armies.
The King David by Matthias Stomer (circa 1633-1639).
Musee des Beaux-Arts de Marseille
Given the dependence of Judaism, Christianity and even Islam on the Hebrew Bible, it is important to understand how the Bible depicts blood vengeance.
The Death of Julius Caesar, an 1806 painting by Vincenzo Camuccini.
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Historian and complexity scientist, Dan Hoyer, examines why past societies collapsed when faced with crisis, while others founds ways to survive and flourish.
A miniature of the Erythrean Sibyl, writing.
British Library, Royal 16 G V f. 23.
While the wider literature tells us that medieval women were silent and passive, their letters and embroideries tell a different story.
Illustration of the devil pricking a woman with a pin and another of a girl vomiting pins from a history of witches.
Wellcome Collection
Pins were ubiquitous and swallowing them became associated with demonic posession and female “hysteria”.