Eager to demonstrate the value of an historical perspective as to why, in a functioning market economy, people are unlikely to ever run out...
80 months ago

Popular myth has it that 19th-century technology was too crude to enable Babbage to complete his Difference Engines. But working to his specifications,...
66 months ago

Today in women's history in 1818, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is published. The book, by 21-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley...
141 months ago

We understand that it's impossible to predict the future, and all of us have the capacity to say something truly stupid about the way we...
26 months ago

Kathryn Hughes enjoys an absorbing history of life in 19th-century London.
144 months ago

THE NOMINATIONS IN FULL: Barmouth Bridge. This under-publicised wooden viaduct – one of the longest on the network – symbolises survival...
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Many Romans have fled their city after a prediction it would be hit by an earthquake. But forecasters usually get the future spectacularly...
163 months ago

The Confession Box pub resides snuggly at 88 Marlborough Street on the ground floor of a fine old Georgian building at the side of the old...
78 months ago

"An Octoroon" at Woolly Mammoth is a brave, chaotic, wonderfully-acted play, but it lacks intellectual cogency.
102 months ago

The newly invented steam train, traveling so fast and far were blamed for triggering dark desires in men, driving them to insane acts of violence.
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