ARTEFACT OF WAR

ENGINEERING THE END OF MEDIEVAL WARFARE

In the 1960s, American project developer and writer Stewart Brand played a part in the LSD-based counterculture of San Francisco. Along with author Ken Kesey and composer Ramón Sender Barayón, he co-p

Alice Loxton EleanorA 200-mile walk in search of England’slost queen352pp. Pan Macmillan. £22. Many are commemorated in stone, but few so grandly as Eleanor of Castile (d. 1290). Following her unexpec

When James Watson died on 6th November last year at the age of 97, he was survived by a wife, two sons and a severely tarnished reputation. Watson was one of the world’s most famous scientists, having

A HUNDRED YEARS ago on 26 January 1926, in an attic room in London’s Soho (more famous for ladies of the night than technological breakthroughs), a Scottish engineer gave the first public display of p