It's Always More Complicated

Dept of, Glad to see the article actually invokes phrenology: A scientist says he can scan prisoners’ brains for signs of evil. Did his disputed science put a man on death row? - though phrenology wasn't just about 'biological criminality'. (And I wonder does Dr Brain-Scan only think it's good for determining criminality, because some years ago I had the misfortune to feature on a TV programme on Sex Research which included some specimens of Modern Scientists who were all about their Machines That Went Bing! and could determine Sexual Orientation etc.)

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Dept of, and I have been to a lot of concerts there, as well: Trafalgar Square’s St Martin-in-the-Fields gives up secrets of its stones.

[Not] just... a church used by royalty, but one which launched London’s first free lending library, and to where the origins of the Big Issue, Amnesty International and Shelter can all be traced. Its steps are a well-known site of protest, notably the anti-apartheid demonstrations of the 1980s.

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Dept, the English identity and language is All More Complicated: How Did the English Arrive in Britain?

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Dept, literature is not actually a reflection of demographic actuality: do high maternal mortality rates ‘explain’ why stepmothers appear so often in fairy tales?.

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Dept, women in unexpected archives doing unexpected things: Tracing the hidden histories of women in the Stationers’ Company apprenticeship registers