Molchat Doma – What’s In My Bag?
Belarusian post-punk band Molchat Doma goes record shopping at Amoeba Music in Hollywood. Their latest album 'Belaya Polosa' is available from Sacred Bones.
Beyond The Pottery: The Creative Giant, Josiah Wedgwood
Historian and author AN Wilson explores the life of his great hero, Josiah Wedgwood. As one of the founding fathers of the Industrial Revolution, Wegdwood was a self-made, self-educated creative…
Nish Kumar Dish Podcast
Nish Kumar is a critically acclaimed comic, who has won rave reviews and prestigious award nominations for his stand up. Away from the comedy circuit, he is a regular on…
Not Just the Tudors: When Europe met Islam
In the Early Modern period the boundaries between Christian and Islamic civilisations were far more porous than we imagine: Isaac Newton’s library included Arabic biographies of the Prophet Muhammad; the…
Chinese Porcelain
A BBC Documentry
The Doorkeepers
by A. T. Greenblatt in Uncanny Magazine Issue Sixty-Eight | 8840 Words
A Genius Can Always Get Their Hands on a Violin
No one will remember me, but they will remember him and that’s enough, isn’t it, for him to be the legendary one and for me to think that by giving…
History Extra podcast: Giuseppe Garibaldi
He led one of history's most celebrated guerrilla campaigns, showed remarkable political acumen, and drove aristocratic English women wild. Is it any wonder that Giuseppe Garibaldi is one of the…
A brief history of singular ‘they’
The Oxford English Dictionary traces singular they back to 1375, where it appears in the medieval romance William and the Werewolf.