Long out of fashion, the term ‘Third World’ emerged amid the political polarisation of the Cold War. Now there is war in Europe again, and renewed talk of Non-Alignment. Does the ‘Global South’ exist?
Charles Dickens’ most enduring friendship was with his sister-in-law, who has been remembered as his housekeeper.
Depicting an ancient world in which Amazons fought alongside men, winds had distinct characters, and tortoises sang.
Americanised globalisation and the new world of Russian business in the 1990s.
The stage has a short memory, print a long one: 400 years since its first publication, Shakespeare’s First Folio is the reason we remember him.
The Roman veterans village of Karanis in Egypt did not change the world. Its ordinariness is what makes it remarkable.
In 1955, the Bandung Conference brought together post-colonial nations in the hope of forging a new solidarity. Could such disparate countries overcome their inherent differences?
The governors of the London Foundling Hospital recruited an external network of nurses to care for children. For many, the bonds established endured.
‘I’d like to go back to midnight on 1 January 1863, when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect.’
Fifty encrypted letters sent by Mary, Queen of Scots have recently been deciphered. What have we learnt?
