Why Are We Drawn to Mountains?
George Mallory, one of the central figures in the history of mountaineering, was haunted by this simple question, as the author Daniel Light explains
19th Century
A collection of 39 Posts
From the Boy Who Never Grew Up to the Woman Who Lived with the Dead
Judith Flanders turns her attention on the Victorians' peculiar obsession with dying
A Photographic Portrait of Frederick Douglass (1879)
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
The Oxford English Dictionary with Sarah Ogilvie
Sarah Ogilvie on the personalities behind the pages
The World’s Biggest Prison in the Middle of Nowhere
Nick Guyatt explores an 19th century tragedy in Britain's most terrifying prison
Ghost Mountain
William Atkins explores the banishment of the Zulu prince, Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, to the remote island of St Helena
The Trial of Maximilian I, the 'Last Emperor of Mexico'
Edward Shawcross explores ill-fated reign of Maximilian of Mexico who crossed the Atlantic to assume a faraway throne