The Ceaseless Curiosity of Alberto Manguel: An Interview
What drives us to learn? How do books help us understand the world? How does language fail us?…
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The Liberation of the Camps: 8 May 1945, Theresienstadt
By May 1945 all of the concentration and extermination camps across Europe had been liberated. In this final piece…
Guy de la Bedoyere on The Real Lives of Roman Britain
What was it like to live in Roman Britain? Much ink has been spilled on the archaeological remains that still exist…
Einstein & His General Theory of Relativity
2015 marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, and to celebrate this momentous occasion,…
Jane Dawson on John Knox
John Knox was the leader of the Protestant Revolution in Scotland during the 16th century. He was a…
The Liberation of the Camps: 15 April 1945, Bergen-Belsen
The Bergen-Belsen camp is perhaps one of the best-known of the atrocities committed by the Nazis during the…
Francis Barber: Biography, Celebrity, Obscurity by Michael Bundock
Francis Barber lived a remarkable life. As far as we know he was born a slave on a…
The Liberation of the Camps: 11 April 1945, Buchenwald
It has been 70 years since the Nazi-led concentration and extermination camps were liberated by the allies. The…
How the British Army’s First World War Shaped its Second
More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority…
David Cooper on Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók is widely acknowledged as one of the most important musical composers of the early 20th century. He is…
The Old Boys: Toffs, Top Hats & Pasties
David Turner, author of The Old Boys: The Decline and Rise of the Public School, examines the controversial issues of education…
Alan Titley On Translating Cré na Cille
Cré na Cille or The Dirty Dust by Máirtín Ó Cadhain was originally published in 1949, but has only recently become available…
Rousseau to Nietzsche: Frank M. Turner & European Intellectual History
Frank M. Turner (1944 – 2010) forged his entire career at Yale University, where he was John Hay Whitney Professor…
Hard Times (Part 3): Aftermath
The economic consequences of the financial downturn that started in 2008 are well familiar – they were immediately…
Hard Times (Part 2): Recession
The economic consequences of the financial downturn that started in 2008 are well familiar – they were immediately…