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A history of the dirty business of wiretapping.

A tale of female revenge, power and solidarity.

The physician James Parkinson, who lent his name to the medical condition he defined, was born on 11 April 1755.

Missing fragments of the written record are made all the more conspicuous by their absence. 

There is value in a leader who lies – but only if it is done for the greater good.

Dinner parties in the ‘Revolutionary Age’ with the publisher Joseph Johnson.

‘I change my mind – at least a little – after everything I read.’

The elixir of life, a mythical substance from ancient Chinese literature, underpins an enormous industry in modern China.