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After suffering a mental breakdown and being put on “suicide watch”, Hampstead artist and poet John-Paul Flintoff found solace in his art.

Medieval manuscripts and their forgotten artist-authors come to life. Book review by Boyd Tonkin

Protestant cancel culture meant illuminated books were used as kindling and lavatory paper, says Mary Wellesley in her new book Hidden Hands

C alling a thing by its proper name is a service to truth, if not to political ambitions or evil designs. Of course, ambitions abide and creating labels to denigrate an idea, opponent, or promote your agenda is nothing new. If I am a "Progressive" and you are not with me, you must be against Progress. The Dark Ages was a clever label, attributed to Petrarch (d. 1374), stuck on the period after the decline of the Roman Empire which neatly contrasted with an earlier period of antiquity which boasted learning and literacy. With the recovery of classical texts, the classical light was dawning aft...

What Merpeople Say About Us How changing perceptions of mermaids and mermen reveal deeper understandings of myth, religion, science, wonder and capitalism. By Vaughn Scribner Merpeople’s hybridity has helped them maintain a presence in both scientific and mythological camps. In many people’s minds, mermaids and mermen remain mythical creatures more suitable for bedtime stories than scientific tracts. Yet for others merpeople symbolize the outer limits of our scientific and mythological investigations.  Just as the evolution of science has not done away with lingering notions of wonder an...