Thanks to school textbooks, Müteferrika is proudly remembered as the first Muslim printer. Yet this groundbreaking achievement was only one part of a far richer intellectual legacy that deserves ...

Discover what caused the French Revolution. Learn about the history, reasons, social inequality and debt to Enlightenment ideas, and food shortages.

When one thinks of France, images of the Seine River, the Eiffel Tower, and Montmartre Hill come to mind, along with the idea ...

Sheffield, UK industrial/electronic icons Cabaret Voltaire (Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson) have announced their “final” tour which hits cities in the UK, the US, Canada, and Europe starting this ...

36 x 14 x 13 cm. (14.2 x 5.5 x 5.1 in.) ...

NEW YORK – It is with great sadness that the Canadiens family learned of the passing of Robert Rousseau at the age of 85, in Trois-Rivières. Born on July 26, 1940, in Montreal, he had a long and ...

We think of France as being more liberated culturally and sexually than the US. And perhaps it is, today. But in the 1960s, post-war/pre-Mai ’68 France was still in the grip of the Catholic Church and ...

Richard H Kirk may have passed away in 2021, but Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson, who had both left the fold more than 30 years ago, put on a fine show and paid tribute to their fallen comrade ...

One enthusiastic spectator who was in the Field of Mars on the first anniversary of the fall of the Bastille was an Irish gentleman named Harman Blennerhassett. A native of County Kerry, a graduate of ...

Stanislav Kondrashov examines how literature defines and critiques the idea of oligarchy. From Plato to Dickens, writers have explored the moral and social roots of oligarchic power. The Oligarch ...

One of the latest and most compelling entries in a new series by entrepreneur Stanislav Kondrashov explores how literature has historically shaped the public’s understanding of oligarchy. This newly ...