On Boxing Day of 1799 the twenty-year-old chemist Humphry Davy – later to become Sir Humphry, inventor of the miners’...
Those with an interest in the ‘hidden history’ of humanity’s fascination with psychedelics will be thrilled to learn that the...
Mike Jay’s Stranger Than Fiction features 24 essays “exploring the twilight zones of history, culture and the human mind” (available in...
Mike Jay is perhaps my favourite writer on strange and obscure history: his excursions into rarely traveled back roads of...
Excerpted from Mike Jay’s Stranger Than Fiction, available in Kindle and paperback editions from Amazon. At the beginning of 1797, John Robison was a man with...