The discovery of the molecular structure of benzene by Kathleen Lonsdale helped to reveal the secrets of carbon-based life, ...
Master of Rome by David Potter, The Roman World War by Giusto Traina, and Livia by Caitlin C. Gillespie – tell us about ...
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d’État by Ruth First is a timely reissue from the first wave of Africa’s ‘coup ...
In the 19th century nascent copyright law allowed brands to use fine art in their advertising. It raised prestige, sales, and controversy.
It has been 60 years since the Aberfan disaster of 1966, but memories of corporate failings and injustice persist.
As the Thirty Years War ravaged the Continent, news reached England of strange phenomena. What did it portend?
Incognito investigative journalism was a Victorian invention. What explained its overnight success?
What’s the most exciting field in history today? The continuing retrieval of forgotten voices.’ ...
On September 15th, 1830 the MP for Liverpool and former Cabinet minister, William Huskisson, alighted from his carriage on the steam locomotive Northumbrian and became the first person ever to die in ...
CIA and MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Dawn of the Cold War by Stephen Long discovers a farcical attempt to ...
Amy Fuller looks at the life of the Mexican nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and asks why we feel the need to kill our heroines rather than celebrate their achievements. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a ...
A cross in the road in Oxford’s Broad St marks the site of the execution. Workmen had discovered part of a stake and some bits of charred bone there, in what had once been part of the town ditch.
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