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From migration to ecology, new knowledge makes new cartographic demands

Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale is renowned for its salacious storyline of sexual misadventure. Set in 14th-century Oxford, it tells the tale of John the Carpenter, a husband so terrified that another “Noah’s flood” is coming to drown the world that he sleeps in a basket in the attic – freeing…

King’s son, Joe Hill, joins V Castro and Keith Rosson in withdrawing from the Tales of the Weird festival this weekend in support of industrial action

Oscar Wilde's reading pass for the British Library was reissued after its revocation 130 years ago.

The British Library said they hoped to honour Wilde’s memory and ‘acknowledge the injustices and immense suffering he faced’

As the seasons turn and the nights draw in, the countryside of the British Isles seems alive with omens: an owl’s screech, or a bat above the hedgerows.

Each night, the Moon glistens in the night sky, replete with all sorts of meanings depending on the person viewing it. Poets and artists have contemplated it for thousands of years.

The history of the dead – or, more precisely, the history of the living’s fascination with the dead – is an intriguing one.

Exclusive: Pass to be presented to playwright’s grandson after original cancelled over conviction for gross indecency