Waging the war against slavery

Efforts to prohibit abortion down the ages

The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early ...

Visit any waterside tavern along the coast of Britain and you’re likely to hear some yarn about its smuggling past, no doubt embellished with each sip of ale: barrels clandestinely offloaded onto a mo

Where newspapers came from

To mark the 250th anniversary of her birth, we look into the life of this literary genius…

It’s a truth universally acknowledged more than 250 years later – and we’re as obsessed with the author as ever