Postwar state support for agriculture in the UK has been hailed a great success, but it had unexpected consequences. P rewar ...
The Heretic of Cacheu by Toby Green and Worlds of Unfreedom by Roquinaldo Ferreira, painstakingly recreate the worlds at the ...
On 14 November 1848 the Fox sisters conjured up a movement when they made contact with the dead – or so they claimed.
As the medieval book trade declined, Oxford scribes had to turn their hands to other crafts to get by. A t its height ...
Other satellite technologies have also revolutionised daily life. Weather satellites have made forecasts more accurate, while ...
Chernobyl Children: A Transnational History of Nuclear Disaster by Melanie Arndt discovers how civil society flourished – and then faltered – in the fallout.
The year before Mary Wollstonecraft wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, another writer, Olympe de Gouges, published a comparable call for equality during the turmoil of revolutionary France.
The path leading from Edmond Halley’s writings on magnetism to UFOs under Brazil is as convoluted as you might expect. Nonetheless, it was Halley – best known for using Newtonian mechanics to predict ...
El Generalísimo: Franco: Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness by Giles Tremlett considers the making of the mediocrity ...
The Second Emancipation: Nkrumah, Pan-Africanism, and Global Blackness at High Tide by Howard W. French traces the line between civil rights in the US and decolonisation in Africa.
The past is full of unfamiliar ideas and beliefs, but – as Evelyn Underhill has proven – some things are timeless. I n popular history, there are few more challenging subjects than the supernatural ...
It is more than 60 years since the All-African Peoples Conference convened in Accra, Ghana in 1958. It was a notable event in the history of Pan-Africanism. Organised by two leading Pan-Africanists, ...
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