Use of Quantum Interferometry at Megalithic Sites: Turning to Quantum Physics
Go visit a sacred ancient site, if possible one featuring a high density of megalithic architecture, and when you get back tell me, hand on
Mental Health and the 17th-Century Ship’s Doctor
In September 1649 ship’s surgeon John Conny was deeply relieved and praised God that ‘all our men [are] in reasonable good health’. This emotive entry
Reduce and Seduce at the Teenage Beauty Farm
When it opened in the Malibu mountains in 1962, the ‘Teen-Age Beauty Farm’ – a combination spa, charm school, weight-loss clinic, and summer camp –
The Battle for Britain’s First Book of the Month Club
In October 1929 thousands of members of Britain’s Book Society received a new hardback through the post. Whiteoaks, by an unfamiliar Canadian writer, Mazo de
Swahili on the Road | History Today
In March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) – sat down with former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt on
Plato’s Last Word to Dionysius
By the time Plato departed the court of Dionysius the Younger in 361 BC, his relations with the Syracusan autocrat had turned frosty. Plato had
A Royal Skeleton in the Chapel
In June 1925 a sarcophagus was discovered in Dorset’s Sherborne Abbey and widely reported to be that of ‘Ethelbert’, a ninth-century king of Wessex. Decades
Renaissance Florence’s Missing Bronzes | History Today
It was the greatest contest in the history of art – and arguably the most mysterious too. The year was 1401 and in Florence, the
Politicising Abortion in the United States
Lizzie and Frank Ward started seeing each other in early 1860. They went for walks in the northern Pennsylvania woods, attended church socials, and kissed.
Martin Crusius’ Armchair Voyage | History Today
When the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II seized Constantinople in 1453 shockwaves radiated through Christian Europe. According to Pope Pius II, the fall of the Byzantine