AlamyOrkney's Maeshowe tomb is a burial cairn created around 2800BC that conceals a stone-clad sepulchre (Credit: Alamy)We will probably never know the specific beliefs and rituals that inspired Maeshowe tomb. But it's nonetheless possible to understand the enormous significance of...
Immersive shows recreating the ocean liner's fateful voyage are attracting audiences globally. But are they valuable historical experiences, or cynically turning tragedy into entertainment?The grand interior rooms of the Titanic are slowly filling up with water. Videos projected on to...
An audacious planIn May 1951, the Glasgow University students – Ian Hamilton, Kay Matheson, Gavin Vernon and Alan Stuart – confessed all in a BBC radio interview about just what had happened that night. It all began late on Christmas...
Stag Dance by Torrey PetersThe follow-up to Torrey Peters' critically acclaimed debut Detransition, Baby is a collection of tales, each with an intriguing premise, ranging in genre from romantic to dystopian to historical. In The Masker, a young party-goer on...
Tom Brook was the first on the scene when the BBC reported on John Lennon's death, later interviewing his widow, Yoko Ono, and their young son. Today, he reconnects with Sean Ono Lennon on his parents' legacy – and giving...
Born just a year apart (Turner in sooty London in 1775, Constable in a serene Suffolk village in 1776), the two were, from the first, "fire and water" opposites, as another reviewer in 1831 would describe them. Turner, whose father...
Her married status didn't stop brothers Giuliano and Lorenzo di Piero de' Medici fighting over her affections and she was muse to many artists, including Sandro Botticelli. Some even think she was the inspiration for Venus in The Birth of...
Curtis saw his mission as "documenting what he thought of as 'a dying race'," Cross tells the BBC. He cropped out from his photos "signs of modernity" such as clocks, she says, serving the illusion that Indigenous people remain stopped...
The Shakespeare drama starring Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley has a stellar cast but is "exploitative" and lacks subtlety – "it tugs the heartstrings and targets the tear ducts with absolute ruthlessness".There's no doubt that, in many people's eyes, Hamnet...
The Little People concept had quickly attracted wider attention well beyond rural Georgia. Babyland even got a mention in the UK's Daily Express as early as 1980, albeit as "the kind of lunatic scheme that appeals to Americans". Still, as...
