The Battle of Trafalgar: A Great Victory?
James Davey, author of the new book In Nelson’s Wake and curator of the National Maritime Museum, reexamines…
Articles
Blood, Dreams and Gold: Burma’s Past Catches up with its Future
‘At one time Burma was a thriving and prosperous regional hub; the hope is that it can eventually…
Pevsner Aberdeenshire Explored
David W. Walker is co-author of the two new Pevsner Aberdeenshire volumes in the Buildings of Scotland series, covering…
World Ballet Day 2015
Yale Author Zoe Anderson introduces World Ballet Day 2015 ‘Ballet now crosses boundaries, in technology and in style’…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Munich Agreement
In this, the final part of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, author Gabriel Gorodetsky…
Bringing Modern Architecture to Oxford
By Elain Harwood, author of Space, Hope and Brutalism — It’s very easy to take England’s universities for…
Voices of the Wild – Echoes from a Soundscape Ecologist
Article by Bernie Krause, author of Voices of the Wild ‘While a picture may be worth a thousand…
Mass Migration and the Lost World of Byzantium
‘In a pre-mechanical world, where human muscle was one of the main forms of motive power, young, fit…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Outbreak of the Second World War
In part three of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky selects and introduces…
Meet Ivan Maisky: The Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact
In part two of our blog series celebrating publication of The Maisky Diaries, Gabriel Gorodetsky shares an excerpt…
Meet Ivan Maisky: Soviet Ambassador to London, 1932-43
As the Soviet ambassador to London from 1932-1943, Ivan Maisky had a front-row seat at some of the…
Why Monoclonal Antibodies (Mabs) are the Future of Medicine
The Lock and Key of Medicine by Lara V. Marks is the first book to tell the extraordinary…
Wellington after Waterloo – An Article by Rory Muir
Wellington after Waterloo by Rory Muir The Duke of Wellington felt far from triumphant after defeating Napoleon at…
Mullah Omar is Dead: Is it all Over for Taliban?
The recent official announcement of Taliban leader Mullah Omar’s death has excited widespread debate and speculation on what…
Six Surprising Owl Facts
By Tony Angell, author of The House of Owls — To most of us owls are mysterious and elusive…