Food as a Symbol in Classical Greece
'You are what you eat' was as relevant an observation for the ancients as for more modern thinkers, argues Helen King
Volume 36 Issue 9 September 1986
Gibbon, the Secular Scholar
Gibbon may have been a man of his time but he was also master of his craft in deploying facts to show history (through the medium of the Roman Empire) as self-generating and self-explanatory, writes Roy Porter.
The Portland Archive
Mike Curtis explroes an important collection of papers from the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland.