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JMW Turner, Eugène Delacroix and Théodore Géricault were among the artists inspired by the much-portrayed poet whose concern for Venice and the Parthenon Marbles has a resonance 200 years after his death

Only the initiated are possessed of the knowledge that when I write the Diatribe column in Neos Kosmos I summon up the spirits of Lord Byron to expunge superfluous cantos and Theophilus to subtract hyperbole.

The International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) refused to recognise the current geological time as the Anthropocene (Human) Epoch because adding an Anthropocene Epoch ~ and terminating the Holocene Epoch ~ was not supported by geological standards used to define epochs.

Britain’s most (in)famous poet died 200 years ago today – after blazing a scandalous trail across Europe

This little-visited fishing town is far off the tourist radar, but is worth a detour

Two hundred years after his death, Lord Byron remains one of Britain’s most controversial poets. But who was the real man behind this scandalous reputation? Charlotte May and Amy Wilcockson look at his life through nine objects.

Here are three travel ideas for 2024 offering great value, that are safe, and offer some wonderful adventures—2024 is the year to visit Albania, Egypt and Morocco.

Despite tailing the climate crisis movement, some on the left still think of labour as the source of all wealth. Jack Conrad spells out the ABCs for the SWP and the IST

An impressively rounded portrait of the raucous and manipulative poet, venereal scars and all

Elginism, the taking of cultural treasures, often from one country to another (usually to a wealthier one). It is commonly associated with debates over “cultural patrimony,” “cultural property,” and related international agreements, such as the UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and