October 2020 Issue Mathew Lyons Breaking the Spell The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the Ice Age to the Present By Chris Gosden LR
October 2020 Issue Lucy Lethbridge The Woolworths Poltergeist The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story from 1930s England By Kate Summerscale
November 2018 Issue Kevin Jackson Something to Sink Your Teeth Into The Vampire: A New History By Nick Groom LR
October 2017 Issue Kevin Jackson Rise to the Occasion Levitation: The Science, Myth and Magic of Suspension By Peter Adey LR
October 2017 Issue John Harwood Scare Stories The Ghost: A Cultural History By Susan Owens Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds By Leo Braudy LR
April 1993 Issue David V Barrett An Unholy Alliance At the Heart of Darkness: Witchcraft, Black Magic and Satanism Today By John Parker LR
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Although a pioneering physicist and mathematician, Blaise Pascal made it his mission to identify the divine presence in everyday life.
Costica Bradatan explores what such a figure has in common with later thinkers like Kierkegaard.
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The era of dollar dominance might be coming to an end. But if not the dollar, which currency will be the backbone of the global economic system?
@HowardJDavies weighs up the alternatives.
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Johannes Gutenberg cut corners at every turn when putting together his bible. How, then, did his creation achieve such renown?
@JosephHone_ investigates.
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Joseph Hone: Start the Presses! - Johannes Gutenberg: A Biography in Books by Eric Marshall White
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