For much of its modern history state lotteries were seen as antithetical to Britain’s moral values. The introduction of the ...
O n 8 January 1981 Isabel Allende was living in Venezuela when she learned that her grandfather was dying. A cousin of ...
In late 1956 hundreds of thousands of Hungarians joined an uprising against the country’s Moscow-oriented government. 70 ...
CIA and MI6 Covert Action in Communist Albania at the Dawn of the Cold War by Stephen Long discovers a farcical attempt to ...
Incognito investigative journalism was a Victorian invention. What explained its overnight success?
As the Thirty Years War ravaged the Continent, news reached England of strange phenomena. What did it portend?
The discovery of the molecular structure of benzene by Kathleen Lonsdale helped to reveal the secrets of carbon-based life, ...
Political Power in Africa and the Coup d’État by Ruth First is a timely reissue from the first wave of Africa’s ‘coup ...
Nearly 30 years after his accession to the throne and following a long struggle to provide a healthy male heir, Henry VIII had finally produced the legitimate son he craved. At around 2am on Friday 12 ...
Master of Rome by David Potter, The Roman World War by Giusto Traina, and Livia by Caitlin C. Gillespie – tell us about ...
On 25 October 1786 the physicist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg happened upon the aspect ratio for the perfect piece of paper.
It has been 60 years since the Aberfan disaster of 1966, but memories of corporate failings and injustice persist.
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