Our garments offer glimpses of the unconscious; we may also choose them because they feel nothing like us—because they allow us, briefly, to become someone else.

The document, titled Protocols of the Elders of Zion, arrived in Britain around 1919, carried in the luggage of Russian émigrés fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution. It claimed to be the secret minutes of ...

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An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known Black Briton actually had fairer skin and was from southern England, researchers using new ...

A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

If you wander through Glasgow Green, you'll encounter the Doulton fountain, a gaudy terracotta tribute to empire that ...

After two years in France, Cowley returned to New York. The next few years were his most productive as a poet by far, marked ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...

Thomas Paine published “Common Sense” in 1776 as an argument for independence. Americans across the political spectrum have ...

When Britain’s King Charles III is crowned in London on May 6, he’ll sit on an ancient chair housing a 335-pound boulder cloaked in mystery. Used for British coronations since the late 14th century, ...

A new UBC Okanagan study found that people who microdose psychedelics feel better on the days they take them-but those boosts don't seem to last.

Until now, the oldest conclusive evidence of complex fire-making like this was a mere 50,000 years old, with disputed ...