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On 25 July 1908 chemistry professor Kikunae Ikeda gave name to an elusive new taste: umami.
J osé Martí (1853-95) is a singular figure in Latin American history. A writer and a revolutionary, Martí was the prophet and ...
Hertha Ayrton’s experiment in a bathtub may have saved lives in the trenches, but it caused ripples among the ranks of the ...
Hinduism predates colonialism by thousands of years, but in Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu ...
I ronically, when we speak about inquisitions, people have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition. But inquisitions into the ...
British military engagement in northwest Europe did not pause after Waterloo and resume in 1914. The intervening century saw fluctuations in French power – and the creation of a strategic system to ...
Greene’s attack is significant as it is the earliest surviving reference to Shakespeare as a writer of plays. But, precisely for this reason, it also leaves us with a problem. If Shakespeare was ...
The new threepenny weekly was launched as Punch or The London Charivari, implying a mixture of cheerful humour and biting satire. Punch was from Punch and Judy, while the word charivari meant a ...
The keel of the most famous ship in the history of the Royal Navy was laid down in the Old Single Dock (now the Victory Dock) at Chatham Dockyard in Kent. Present with Admiralty officials at the ...
‘I Humbly Beg Your Speedy Answer’: Letters on Love and Marriage from the World’s First Personal Advice Column by Mary Beth ...
23 years before the Mayflower, the first pilgrim settlers to America tried, and failed, to settle in Newfoundland.
The 1950s is remembered as an era of ideal homes and perfect housewives. Yet this decade marked the beginning of a momentous social change: the rise of the working wife and mother. Poor women had ...