The many joys and delights of world cuisines are bound to be strong uniting factors in any given society. In Britain, this has certainly been the case. The food trade has informed economic exchange and Read more…
Who would have thought that Geoffrey Chaucer was into Muslim scholarship? As it happens, the works of that old literary genius meant that 24 Arabic words entered the English language in the 14th-century. What’s more, Read more…
News and data emerging around cultural destruction this year has felt relentless. A new interactive map by Antiquities Coalition shows almost 700 historical sites at risk in 22 countries, including those that Daesh has deliberately Read more…