Padraic X. Scanlan levels familiar charges against British colonialism and capitalism in Rot: A History of the Irish Famine. Is there more to the story? It is not hard to see the imprint of Mitchel’s ...

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, ...

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 ...

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

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, ...