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 ...

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

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

Judy Z. Stephenson is Professor of the Economic History of the Built Environment at the Bartlett, UCL ...

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

Born a sickly baby in Tokyo, Hirohito would grow up to enjoy or endure a reign of 62 years, the longest in Japanese history. His mother was the Princess Sadako, who had been married at 16 almost a ...

Orson Welles created a sensation in 1938 with a radio adaptation of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds that reported a Martian invasion of New Jersey. The programme broke into the previous broadcast, ...