HistoryThe Doctor Is In Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom The British love the National Health Service. In early 2020, people emerged from their homes every Thursday evening to applaud healthcare workers and[……] Read more
HistoryIn Good Spirits Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom ‘To drink drunk is an ordinary matter with them every day in the week’, said Giles Fletcher, ambassador to Russia, in 1588. His observation echoed an[……] Read more
HistoryA Peach of a Project Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom Lawrence du Garde Peach’s Ladybird book on Charles II. Alamy. The playwright Lawrence du Garde Peach (1890-1974) is remembered today as the author of[……] Read more
HistoryBritannia’s Black Spartacus Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom Toussaint Louverture, 19th-century engraving. Alamy. In June 1846, 13 years after slavery in the British Empire had been outlawed, and just at the mo[……] Read more
HistoryAll Too Graphic Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom Brothers in arms?: a British soldier lights a cigarette for a Dyak colleague, Malaya, 1950 © Haywood Magee/Getty Images. On 28 April 1952 a photograp[……] Read more
HistoryCrimes of Fashion Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom A public washing ground. English 17th-century engraving. Alamy. Could something as mundane as a shirt ever be the motive for murder? What if clothing[……] Read more
HistoryInvisible Hands Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom ‘Children’s Christmas Dinner At Sea’, illustration by G. Durand from The Graphic, 1889. Caroline Pereira was a frequent business traveller. For a wom[……] Read more
HistoryMonumental Record Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom Papyrus containing the diary of Merer from day 19 to 25 (read right to left) at the Wadi al-Jarf exhibition, Cairo Museum, 2016. In 2013 archaeologis[……] Read more
HistoryLoveless Letters Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom ‘Kolkhoz’ [collective farm] women working in a field, 1930s © Hulton Getty Images. The Soviet project claimed to have dismantled the causes of oppres[……] Read more
HistoryThe Young Crusaders Jan 24, 2022 Jack Tom Boy Scouts in Barnet, 1930. Hulton Getty Images. The doors of the Queen’s Hall, London, opened at 7.15pm on 16 April 1930. The evening featured a per[……] Read more