Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

The weakening of the railways is forcing the working class into expensive automobile transport, reinforcing social isolation and economic exclusion.

Textiles have entered their popular era, encouraged by patrons, revivalists and curators, and exhibitions that aim to be ...

Fast-forward two millennia and the paintwork has long since faded, giving rise to a range of colourless copycats that would ...

Art historian TJ Clark on ‘humourless’ leftist intellectuals, the problem with cancel culture and why restitution is in a ...

We speak at length with Tariq Ali, Pakistani British historian, activist, filmmaker. He is an editor of the New Left Review ...

Historical anime fans who enjoyed The Apothecary Diaries are spoiled with choice when it comes to other, similar anime of the same genre.

Earl Grey tea has been popular for more than a century, but who was Earl Grey, why did he have a tea named for him, and why ...

Similarly, whilst GlaxoSmithKline’s origins can be traced back as far as 1715, it was only in the middle of the 19th century that Beecham ... being born with life-changing deformities.

The middle value of all realized prices for an artist's works sold at auction during a given period, providing a clearer representation of typical market values by minimizing the influence of extreme ...

America has a complicated history when it comes to the middle class. Being included in the ... with sky-rocketing cost of medication and life-saving medical procedures, and it would appear that ...

The upper-middle class of today doesn’t look much like the middle class life we watched on TV years ago. GOBankingRates researched how much the values have changed with definition across five ...