Sublime

Succession

Changes at the top

The world of work

Fifth-century BCE Athens bequeathed the idea of democracy to the modern world, after the Athenian ‘tyrants’ were deposed and democratic institutions established at the end of the sixth century BCE – a chronological match with the expulsion of the Roman kings that was not lost on ancient observers, who were keen to present the history of the two pla

An anthropologist, sifting though fragments of excavated remains and social spaces and comparing the institutions, languages and cultural rules of Roman Britain with those of Early Medieval Wales, Scotland and England, must address a complementary set of problems. How did people’s lives change through those tumultuous centuries? What were the princ

Foundation stories: religion, time and politics

Writing it up

Power politics

Citizens