Mind, Body & Life

'Nameless and Friendless' by Emily Mary Osborn (1857) may have been inspired by the widow in 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'

All the divorced ladies

Women dating in their 50s and 60s is now normal and celebrated. Let's take a moment to appreciate how far we've come

Patrons outside a pub in the Yorkshire Dales

The introverts are winning

Technology is enabling us to retreat from the outside world. But we should resist the urge – for ourselves and for each other

'The Death of the Deer' (1867) by Gustave Courbet depicts a stag being hunted by two men and a pack of hounds

Compulsion to kill

We no longer need to stalk wild animals to survive, so what still draws us to the hunt?

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