Angus Mitchell

Forgery or Genuine Document

Angus Mitchell shows that new scientific methods are sometimes unable to settle old historical controversies.

A Congolese man sits looking at a severed hand and foot. Museum of Ethnography. Public Domain.

Roger Casement’s Heart of Darkness

The grim reality underlying Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness echoed the growing moral outrage over the murderous rubber trade. For Roger Casement, it became a moral crusade.