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Why are most gases invisible, odourless and tasteless? Why do some poison us and others make us laugh? And why do some power our engines while others make drinks fizzy? In ‘It’s a Gas&#...
1461. Through blood and battle Edward has gained England’s throne – king by right and conquest – 18 years old and unstoppable. Cecily has piloted his rise to power and stands at h...
Nobody ever found out what happened to Laika Martenwood, the girl who vanished without a trace on her way to school one morning. But for her sister Willa, life shattered into tiny pieces that day, ...
It’s 1961 and the rural Dutch province of Overijssel is quiet. Bomb craters have been filled, buildings reconstructed, and the war is well and truly over. Living alone in her late mother̵...
June 1944: In Operation Bagration, more than two million Red Army soldiers, facing 500,000 German soldiers, finally avenged their defeat in Operation Barbarossa in 1941. The same month saw the Alli...
In ‘Empireworld’, award-winning author and journalist, Sathnam Sanghera extends his examination of British imperial legacies beyond Britain. Travelling the globe to trace its internatio...
Do you know what year the Harrier jump jet was developed? What about the name of the first king of Scotland? Surely you must know the contents of the 1969 Bill of Rights? Don’t know the answe...
In this manifesto for change, one of the world’s pre-eminent designers explores how buildings and cities around the world lost their soul – and what we can do about it. Thomas Heatherwi...
It’s the middle of the night at the Anne Frank House, and a thunderbolt has just struck and shattered the glass case in which Anne’s diary is displayed. Magically, Anne’s imaginar...
Lucy is uprooted from her life in New York City and reluctantly goes into lockdown with her ex-husband William in a house on the coast of Maine.
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In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For 11-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it’s the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintl...
Susan and Norma have been best friends for years, at first thrust together by force of circumstance (a job at The Pin Cushion, a haberdashery shop in 1990s Leicestershire) and then by force of char...
Drawing on examples from Ancient Greece through Brexit and using his own award-winning research – on how democracy is more likely to thrive under high inequality, for instance – Oxford ...
At a New York City wedding, in early summer, four people are trying to get their lives started. Yun has everything he ever wanted, but somehow it’s never enough. Emory is finally making her m...
Former First Lady Michelle Obama shares practical wisdom and powerful strategies for staying hopeful and balanced in today’s highly uncertain world. She considers the questions many of us wre...
Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the world in ways no others could. Where did their magic come from? How did they work so hard and produce so much...