Hoskins’s popularising study The Making of the English Landscape helped a post-war generation realise that the British ...

Cecilia Payne realised that the Sun and stars are primarily hydrogen and helium - only for a man to take credit for the ...

Alex Niven is an author based in Newcastle upon Tyne. His latest book is "The North Will Rise Again" ...

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Massimo Pigliucci is the author of Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk (University of Chicago Press). His essays can be found at Rationally Speaking ...

Meet George Leo Lucas. At the turn of the 1970s, he is a middle-aged civil servant in London, working for the Board of Trade, ...

Ihsan Abdel Kouddous's classic novel - published in English for the first time - shines a light on politics and power in ...

Educating in Faith: A History of the English Catholic Public School (Sacristy Press) by Mark Cleary My Jesuit public school, which was called Beaumont, liked to tell impressionable parents that it was ...