Volume 72 Issue 10 October 2022

What Influence has the BBC had on History?

Founded as the British Broadcasting Company in October 1922, the BBC has sought to ‘inform, educate and entertain’ for a century. Facing an uncertain future, what impact has it had on the past?

Liar Liar

The courtroom drama, executions, and street pageantry of the so-called ‘Popish Plot’.

No Laughing Matter

Aristotle’s lost treatise on laughter is a serious business. Could laughter lead to the downfall of society?