Engelsberg ideas

The French chanteuse Barbara (always Barbara) died in 1997 to immense mourning from her compatriots.

Edward Gibbon was his parents’ first born and, as it transpired, their only surviving offspring.

The clues had been there all along, though few were paying enough attention.

The story of postwar Germany is inextricably bound up with the figure of Konrad Adenauer, ‘the Federal Republic’s George Washington’, as Hans-Peter Schwarz, Adenauer’s first major biographer, once called him.

Among the essential innovations in urban life in the last decade, the spread of e-bike networks, and the increase in the number of delivery riders who use e-bikes, facilitated by mobile technologies, have done as much as anything to fragment the connectio…

The clothes designed by legendary Parisian couturière Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) possess a literary pedigree.

‘Welcome to the most impossible job in the world!’

That man of many twists and turns, Muse, tell of him, who far went wandering when he had sacked Troy’s sacred citadel, who many cities saw, and many thoughts of men discerned, and many agonies endured within his heart at sea… So opens Homer’s Odyssey, with

Andy Burnham, the United Kingdom’s new premier, refers to his political agenda as Manchesterism, named after his relatively successful period as the mayor of Manchester between 2017 and 2026.

In the beginning the gods had intelligent machines.

Looking at the history of the Baltic Sea region we see a succession of powers that tried to control and close the sea: the Hanse, Denmark, Sweden, Imperial and then Nazi Germany and, finally, the Soviet Union.

It is difficult to generalise about national identity, especially from sporting prowess, which in a highly professionalised age often reflects nothing more than the adequacy, or otherwise, of a nation’s infrastructure – but it is a generalisation Argentin…

Politicians and community leaders gathered recently in the Polish city of Kielce to commemorate one of the seminal moments in postwar European history.

Think Bauhaus, think design.

When L’Odissea, the Italian TV series considered among the most faithful screen adaptations of Homer’s Odyssey, was first broadcast on RAI in 1968, it gained an audience of up to 16 million.

Once a frozen frontier and geostrategic backwater, the Arctic is now an important geopolitical theatre.

On the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, former US President Joe Biden posted on social media that ‘We’re the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea.