Refugeehood is not supposed to be like this. The ideal envisaged by the Refugee Convention is that refugee status ...

The LRB is Europe’s leading magazine of books and ideas. Published twice a month, it provides a space for some of ...

There is truth in the superstition, medical validation for the old wives and their tales. A country’s maternal mortality rate (worryingly high in the UK) is measured as the number of deaths per ...

Spain’s provincial authorities were usually compliant, González said, in part because the exhumations don’t cost them any money. The association relies on donations, and its members run a support ...

We still live in the long shadow of Habsburg disintegration. In addition to the lingering legacy of 19th-century ...

It was spoken primarily by the rural poor; the expansion of state education, which began in the 1830s, meant that English soon became Ireland’s common language. Although Ireland had endured earlier ...

Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative ...

In Ruth, Kate Riley layers two views of the church: on the one hand, a hidden but unquestionable authority, ‘like ...

From the revelations about Jimmy Savile in 2012 to the gender pay gap debacle in 2017, the BBC was for many years ...

The percolating instrumentation of ‘New York’, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and ...

Seamus and Mark look at four elegies written for family members, ranging from the romantic period to the 2010s, each of which avoids, deliberately or not, what Freud described as the work of mourning.

People are living longer than they used to. They are also having fewer children. The evidence of what this combination can do to a society is growing around the world, but some of the most striking ...