After the death of Tiberius, the problem of the succession presented to the senate was not an...
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In the 1950s, many psychiatrists thought that homosexuality could be reformed. Czech psychiatrist Kurt Freund found that...
Magnus Hirschfeld, on the right, sits with his partner, Tao Li, at the fourth conference of the...
In the 1850s, smallpox vaccination became compulsory in Britain. But the influence of anti-vaccination campaigners meant outbreaks...
A combination of poverty and “plague orders” in 1665 trapped many in situations that meant almost certain...
Woman or goddess (“La Parisienne”) from the Camp-Stool fresco, c.1350 B.C.E., western wing of the palace at...
Snake Goddess from the palace at Knossos, c. 1600 B.C.E., faience, 29.5 cm high (Archaeological Museum of...
Anti-Apartheid protest in the 1980s are mere snapshots of time in the long journey towards equality, paved...
An orange flag with the traditional Indian swastika on top of ancient Hindu temples in the Himalayas. (Shutterstock)...
Jean-Baptiste Belley, Deputy of Saint-Domingue and French National Convention member (1793-97) with a bust of Abbé Raynal...
Quranic script from the 8th or 9th century. Courtesy Wikipedia Al-Farabi drew on a rich variety of Hellenic...
Ancient remains at Thula / Creative Commons Following conquest by the Umayyid caliphate, Islam rose fairly quickly. Curated/Reviewed...
Rock Palace, Yemen / Photo by Rod Waddington, Wikimedia Commons Yemen is one of the oldest centers of civilization in...
The end of the Weimar Republic. Adolf Hitler greets President Paul von Hindenburg, in Potsdam, Germany, on...
Reichstag Building / Creative Commons Reconsidering traditional assumptions about the connection between the First World War and the...
Taming of the Shrew, 1809, by Washington Allston / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Public Domain In Shakespeare’s...
Profile of William Shakespeare, c.1793 / Wellcome Collection, Creative Commons Blood, phlegm, black bile and yellow bile:...
Dues Vault, Hospitaller fortress in Acre, Israel / Creative Commons Taking a tour through five well-known 13th-century...
The Siege of Calais (1346) / Wikimedia Commons The 13th century was not only a period of...
Outside the Woman’s Building, 1975. The Getty Research Institute, 2018.M.16. Photo: Maria Karras. Gift of Maria Karras....
Buildings affect how we sleep, work, socialise and even breathe. They can isolate and endanger us, but...
Examining the social and economic lives of the Victorian working classes and the poor. By Liza Picard / 10.14.2009...
New facial reconstruction of a man buried in a medieval hospital graveyard discovered underneath a Cambridge college...
An Arab city of the early medieval period. Urban centers in the Middle East were of a...
Iran has one of the richest art heritages in the world and is home to a number of art...
Grants and Oddities. This patient is shown to have sprouted vegetable offshoots after taking 132 boxes of vegetable...
Frontispiece, most likely by Robert Cruikshank, to The Life and Prophecies of Mother Shipton (1823) / Internet Archive Said...
The Pope, as the head of the Catholic Church, led the single most powerful institution of the...
An equestrian statue of a Julio-Claudian prince, originally identified as Caligula / British Museum, Creative Commons Looking,...
Young Jews praying at the Kotel, the Western Wall, in Jerusalem (Image © Bigstock/kirill4mula) There are approximately 175,000...