Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine.

The masculinity that Gerald represented, and that Peter was suggesting, was as far removed as possible from the secular ...

A few weeks later, the NVA evicted Dao’s family. Escaping Vietnam by boat in 1979, Dao fled to a refugee camp in Malaysia, ...

A s opening lines for a history go, this is an excellent one. Its author was the teenage Jane Austen, in a lively short piece ...

Arsenic was a hidden killer in Victorian homes, but it also played a large part in the British economy. Which comes first: ...

The young student’s name was Louis Braille, and though his name would forever be linked to the tactile writing system for the ...

The Industrial Revolution was a profound crisis and upheaval in industrial organisation, or the way people work. This is a far more useful description than any which emphasise the shift away from ...

Across Britain, people could sense the end of the war approaching by the spring of 1945. After five-and-a-half years of death and destruction, VE Day would provide a moment of rejoicing and relief, ...

The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was established in 1909 to exploit the Persian Gulf oil field, which had been discovered the year before. The name was later changed to Anglo-Iranian. By 1950 the company ...