How musical literacy became a fashion statement

Our assistant editor Saskia Calliste, and co-author Zainab Raghdo are releasing new book 'Hairvolution'. A book of interviews with 31 influential Black women about the history and politics of Black women's hair and the journey to self-love and acceptance in Western society.

The paradox of the aristocrats and the Restoration theatre

The National Gallery of Australia is to return 14 works of art to India that are suspected of having been stolen, looted or exported illegally.

What you probably didn’t realise about the Middle Ages…

Classical music is everywhere, and most people enjoy it. But what makes it still popular?

What was it about Ancient Greek Theatre that influenced the modern stage? Well, it was everything

LGBTQ+ history needs to be remembered, but is instead often forgotten or purposefully erased. Here's a brief summary of the LGBTQ+ events in Britain in the past few hundreds of years. 

I explore the historic nature of the New Vic theatre and how it is rooted in the community, and what work the theatre is doing to reach out. 

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

Isaac Asimov

If you could interview an immortal, what would he say?