In just three years, 162 debut feature films emerged from a new generation of filmmakers, who created energetic, ...

At the time, it was thought that the Earth had seven climate zones, each one determined astrologically. By 1400 or so, Sir ...

Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand (Transworld) by Fiona Sampson ...

Jason Burke's history of "the extremists who hijacked the 1970s" is a rollicking tale – but also a cautionary fable ...

At 21, Joy Brooks had spent her whole life as a member of an evangelical charismatic church in Leicester. Her husband and three children were part of the community, too, and she worked for the Church ...

With the great powers facing off and a global authoritarian slide, we are entering a new era of brazen propaganda. Dissidents already living under totalitarian regimes are reaching out to those who ...

David Olusoga is a British-Nigerian historian, author, presenter and BAFTA-winning filmmaker. He is professor of public history at the University of Manchester. His most recent television series ...

The world wide web is the most prolific incubator of conspiracy theories in human history. For the last few decades, it’s enabled users to spread their wildest, most inflammatory ideas across the ...

Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (Harvard University Press) by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman Who really runs Britain? It’s the question hiding in plain sight, always in the ...

Odd as it may sound – for the pandemic played strange tricks on our experience of time – it has been more than five years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared Covid-19 a Public Health ...