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Marion Gibson “As the Civil War raged, people were anxious, miserable and frightened – and all of those emotions fed into witch trials and witch accusations.” Marion explores how political strife sparked an epidemic of witch hunting, on page 82
1. Trouble at the top As the UK welcomes its seventh prime minister of the last decade, I was interested to discover earlier parellels in this month’s Conversation. For example, Britain had 10 PMs between 1916 and 1940 (page 12). 2....
Ideas developed by ancient peoples in the land between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers still shape our lives today. Selena Wisnom explains why we should celebrate the pivotal roles they played in the development of beer, writing, AI, horoscopes...
In her journal of her travels around England on horseback between 1685 and c1712, Celia Fiennes complained that too many of her contemporaries had succumbed to “the evil itch of over-valuing foreign parts”. The “foreign parts” that Fiennes...
