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...world. Gardiner in Thomas Lord Cromwell (c.1599-1602) cites the threatening of the poor by dogs as an indirect consequence of the Reformation. Once there were institutions ‘. . . where religious men should take them in, / [the poor] Shall now be kept back with a mastiff dog’. Dogs were also a means of describing the men who thrived in this new world. In Middleton’s...

...world power at a time when it was under threat. Which British Empire? The later exhibitions in effect provided 3-D ‘maps’, or Empire as virtual reality, in which you could appear to wander around the buildings of the Empire. But this raises an additional question: which British Empire were you walking round? Which British Empire do you see if you look at maps produced...

...world and we should be respectful and careful in our relations with all life. Perhaps this recognition of living in an edgy world lurks behind the dressing up in costumes (even ones with devilish horns and a tail) and pretending to be spooky. So, Halloween has nothing to do with devil worship and everything to do with having fun while honouring our deceased loved-ones and...

...world became aware of environmental problems, when plastic debris in the oceans was first observed. Hand in hand with activism, artists such as Joseph Beuys (1962), Hans Haacke (1965), Nicolas Uriburu (1968), artists started to raise awareness for water pollution. In 1969-1970 Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison collaborated in mapping endangered species around the...