History

The Jurassic fossil forests at Curio Bay, southern New Zealand, have been known for at least a hundred and fifty years. They …

Svetlana Alexievich’s book ‘The Unwomanly Face of War’ is one of the most impactful I’ve ever read. The book is a series …

I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …

“Would you like to see a Museum?” We were in one of the most remote parts of Mongolia – and I wondered …

Arguably, the most shocking part of Iris Chang’s book ‘The Rape Of Nanking’, comes in its Epilogue. During my 12 months living …

The most famous ‘little log cabin in the woods’ is probably the one in which Abraham Lincoln grew up in Kentucky. It …

I’ve seen two cities that look like they were comprehensively destroyed. I don’t mean just ruins,  but places where someone seems to …