History Matters

Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but this has not come without costs. 

When Blackshirts took over an Italian ship and headed for Cardiff, trade unions held a boycott in what was the first British protest against fascism.

Discovering the deep roots of the cheese plant.

Switzerland was a hub for China’s spy networks in the Cold War. 

A Ghanaian moment in Africa’s struggle to repatriate its art. 

Anatomical pop-up books, introduced in the 16th century, took anatomy out of the lecture hall and into the home. 

Is the office the height of bureaucractic efficiency, or an unnecessary evil?

Defending the Home Front in Ancient Greece.

In 1022 heretics were discovered in northern France and burned to death for their crimes. But what caused this outbreak of radical thought?

As the Nazis enclosed Warsaw’s Jewish quarter in a ghetto, a librarian set up a secret children’s library.