STEVEN ANDREW is moved beyond words by a historical account of mining in Britain made from the words of the miners themselves
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Wine never used to be a snob drink
STEPHAN BLUM presents the evidence that wine was enjoyed by common folk, independent of upper-class celebrations and religious rituals
CHEERS! Depata Amphikypellon from Troy, Early Bronze Age (3rd millennium BC) in National Archaeological Museum of Athens
CAILEAN MCBRIDE welcomes a refreshing and timely study of the way officialdom creates structures that exclude LGBT+ rights and humanity
The bard mourns the loss of comrades and troubadours, and looks for consolation with Black Country Jess
CHRIS MOSS relishes the painting and the life story of a self-taught working-class artist from Warrington
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a star-studded adaptation of Ibsen’s play that is devoid of believable humanity
GORDON PARSONS is fascinated by a unique dream journal collected by a Jewish journalist in Nazi Berlin
Borrowed Time: Lennon’s Last Decade, Parthenope, Where Dragons Live and Thunderbolts* reviewed by MICHAL BONCZA and MARIA DUARTE
WINE-DRINKING in ancient Troy was not restricted to the upper classes, as has long been supposed — something our new research has established for the first time. Colleagues at the University of Tubingen and I have discovered that wine was also enjoyed by the common folk, independent of upper-class celebrations and religious rituals.
In the late 19th century, German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890) excavated the ancient city of Troy. He was hoping to discover the residence of Priam, the king of the city besieged by the Greek army under Agamemnon, as immortalised by Homer in the Iliad.
Among Schliemann’s most outstanding achievements was — alongside the identification of the site of Troy itself — undoubtedly the discovery of the so-called “treasure of Priam.”
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