Devils in the dark

FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on

Night as a space of fear and imagination

A crack-of-dawn start is one way to avoid the crowds. But there’s another option that doesn’t need an alarm clock.

Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City ...

Eighty years after the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki amid the rationale that it would save lives, a new book tells the sur vivors’ stories

Senkichi Awaya was sitting in his dining room at the mayor’s residence in Hiroshima as the clocked ticked round to 8.15am on 6 August 1945. His teenage son Shinobu, and granddaughter Ayako, refugees f