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

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 ...

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

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

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