Much like we are now beginning to feel that there is something wrong with how we treat animals, perhaps some of our ancestors also had a feeling that what they were doing was wrong.

The turn of the 18th century was a time of optimism and complacency in England. The constitutional settlement of 1689, which had established the requirement for ...

A long time ago on an island far, far away, a man by the name of Jeremy Bentham, with his beloved cat by his side (presumably), which he lovingly named, “The Reverend Sir John Langbourne ...