How does the censorship of Marie-Joseph Chénier, Olympe de Gouges and other authors go against the advocacy of free speech promoted at the start of the French Revolution? Show more

'Noted and famed for a comon drunckard and notorious swearer & blasphemer.' Thomas Weelkes wrote more Anglican service music for evensong than many of his fellow Tudor composers. Show more

A suspicious detective, a kind-hearted magistrate and public support for escaped slaves. All part of a story of a Victorian court case told by New Generation Thinker Oskar Jensen. Show more

In the Buddhist tradition, unborn children who die are ‘mizuko', meaning ‘children of the waters’. New Generation Thinker Sabina Dosani reflects on loss and mourning rituals. Show more

An exploration of connections between three writers of a magazine called Voorslag or Whiplash and the Woolfs. And why a founder of the ANC presents us with a literary what if... Show more

The Ninth Bridgewater Treatise on religion and science, published in 1837 by Charles Babbage, laid out ideas about how the sea might have a memory and be able to broadcast sound. Show more

A spinning pig, uncanny knitting and magical seduction come up in a witch trial of Mary Sutton. Emma Whipday unpicks the language used to accuse her of magic. Show more

Champion boxer Len Johnson walks into a bar and orders a drink, but he is turned away because he is Black. This is not unusual in postwar Britain, but what Johnson does next is. Show more

From characters in Dickens and George Eliot through education reforms to Francis Galton's ideas of hereditary genius. New Generation Thinker Louise Creechan looks at 'stupidity'. Show more

New Generation Thinker Jim Scown traces the lineage of ideas about nature and farming into more fascist projections of who has claim to the land. Show more