Only the previous day, I had seen Fortune’s name in Lucy Inglis’s fascinating book Milk of Paradise: A History of Opium. I checked back and there was just this one reference to “the ...

One product that the British could access in large quantities was opium grown in territories under their colonial control. The British response to address the trade imbalance was to flood the ...

It's a question occupying the minds of some people on the internet. The "men's first love theory," the idea that men don't get over their first love, has left some social media users furiously ...

A Scottish mansion where William Wordsworth and Sir Walter Scott are believed to have smoked opium has been put up for sale. Barony House is situated in the Midlothian village of Lasswade near ...