Coronavirus: Learn From the Past to Help the Present

George Santayana once said that “Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it”. Looking back at the 20th Century Spanish Flu Pandemic, what does it teach us about how to handle a global pandemic?

We will fight them in the textbooks: Churchill and historical memory

Regarded by many as the greatest ever Briton, does Churchill represent the need to rethink how we view historical figures?

The First Feminist: How Mary Wollstonecraft Changed The World

Talkin’ ‘Bout A Revolution: Music in the American Civil Rights Movement

Proud to be British?

A Case of Malady, M’Lady: Love, Sickness and Desire

1919: the beginning of modern feminism?

How the personal testimonies of Holocaust survivors bring to life unconscionable statistics in the brilliant documentary ‘Numbered’.

From LOLcats to Prehistoric Penises: The History of Memes

Brummell, Dandyism and the History of Men’s Style