Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can ...

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Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...

Anyone who plays an instrument – or has shared a house with a musician – will be familiar with the maddening nature of repetitive practice. Many piano players have bought Charles-Louis Hanon’s The ...

The question Trump’s opponents want answered is whether he can get away with it. Will his coalition hold, will ...

A t a canteen ​ in Leningrad in December 1941, a man queued for two hours, handed over his ration card, received a bowl of soup and a bowl of porridge, ate the soup and died. A crowd formed around him ...

Tom Johnson joins Malin Hay to discuss the revolution in numeracy and use of numbers in Early Modern England. How did the English go from seeing arithmetic as the province of tradespeople and ...

Around fifteen years ago, a new term entered the climate change lexicon: stranded assets. The concept was straightforward enough. If global warming is to be kept from getting out of hand, there is a ...

Norwegians make a fuss about first books. The newspapers publish round-ups of the year’s literary debutants, who are invited to writers’ workshops organised specially for them. In 1983, two young ...

Hamas had been able to take power in Gaza because Israel had failed to circumscribe Palestinian politics within the Oslo boundaries. But in the event, Hamas was useful to Israel's larger strategy of ...