Sarah Cullen interviews Trans-Gressions 1 programmer and organiser Patrizia Dahlia Thompson on her screening of the new wave ...

Dr Su Yin Yap is a Clinical Psychologist and Psycho-sexologist (which is a Real Thing). She works in the NHS and runs her own private practice in London. She is involved in teaching, individual ...

Julie d’Aubigny in her opera-singing years – one of the few pictures of her from her lifetime that survives. Mark Twain once wrote “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged ...

Jeanne de Clisson was born in the French town of Belleville-sur-Vie in 1300. She was the one of the de Belleville family, who had ruled in the area for hundreds of years. In fact, she wound up being ...

In the heart of Dublin, there are few rites of passage for an emerging artist more significant than a slot at Whelan’s Ones to Watch. On the final night of the festival, the venue transformed into a ...

Welcome to ‘Voices from the Screen’. In this section of HeadStuff’s animation coverage, our writer Joseph Learoyd will celebrate the careers of famous voice actors. A: When I first approach a new ...

The genius of Eugène François Vidocq lay in one simple principle. In order to catch a criminal, you had to be able think like a criminal. And in his case that was easy, because he was one. He’s ...

Prehistoric cave paintings are among the world’s first-known and least-understood works of art. At least two hundred painted caves, some dating to as early as 30,000 BCE, have been found throughout ...

Christina of Sweden was trouble, right from the moment she was born. Her parents had no surviving children, and her mother Maria was desperate to give King Gustavus a son. The only legitimate heirs to ...

Diogenes was born over twenty-four hundred years ago, which is more of a problem than historians like to admit. People didn’t keep great records back then, of course, and not much was written down. Of ...

The Back-to-the-Land movement emerged from the post-Woodstock era of the late-1960s and early-1970s, supported by a mostly idealistic group of people who wanted to live life more simply. Although the ...

The Victorian attitude to Africa was an unusual one. India they understood, they thought. India was a known quantity. But Africa…Africa was a mystery. There’s a phrase that’s used to describe those ...