She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter’, you’re ...

I want to introduce the idea of Cartesian anxiety into this argument. Richard J. Bernstein, who brought the term into philosophical discussion, described it as a ‘quest for some fixed point, some ...

Tolkien scholar Wayne Hammond has just discovered two poems written by J.R.R. Tolkien in a 1936 school annual. One of the poems, The Shadow Man, is a much earlier version of The Shadow Bride, which ...

Shylock has been residing in a corner of my mind for about four years now, ever since I first studied The Merchant of Venice. I’d like to say ‘quietly’, but he’s not always quiet. I think about him ...

James Earl Jones’s version is haunting and resonant, Vincent Price’s adds a certain cackle, a hint of the demented to Edgar Allan Poe’s narrative of lost love, obsession, delusion, coincidence and ...

In 2004, following the request of colleagues in Belgium, I discovered the mtDNA sequence of King Richard III and his siblings. 1 Mitochondrial DNA is inherited only in the all-female line. In that ...

L ady Hester Stanhope, granddaughter of William Pitt the elder, eldest daughter of Charles Stanhope, the 3 rd Earl Stanhope and niece of William Pitt the younger, was born into money and would become ...

The Gyptians of Philip Pullman’s ‘Brytain’ and the wider world were introduced in the first episode of His Dark Materials by way of a newly-seen coming-of-age ceremony. The community came together to ...

When the remains of Richard III were formally identified in 2012, it led to new discoveries about his life and times. Among the results of various investigations, it was determined that in the last ...

When Richard III decided that his coronation would take place only ten days after the day he had taken possession of the realm by a secular enthronement in Westminster Hall, he would have known that ...

All of Mrs. Coulter’s story over season two, from her torturing the witch Katja, the murder of Cardinal Sturrock and the subsequent blackmail of McPhail, to the revelation of her suffering family ...