Andrew Seaton’s first book, Our NHS: A History of Britain’s Best-Loved Institution, has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize.

Ara Darzi released his report on the English National Health Service last month. To no one’s surprise, he finds ...

A judge in Georgia recently struck down the six-week abortion ban. But total or near-total bans are still in place ...

On Friday, 27 September, we felt the whole of Beirut shake. A huge plume of smoke was visible across the city.

The Broadway cinema in Prestwick closed in 1966. It was converted into a bingo hall, then a squash court and ...

Blair never owned a mobile phone while prime minister and barely knew how to send an email. At the same time, he ...

On 10 March 1993, Dr David Gunn was shot dead by Michael F. Griffin, an anti-choice zealot, outside the Pensacola Women’s Medical Services clinic. A year later Dr John Britton was shot dead along with ...

Abu Rayhan al-Biruni and Ibn Sina illustrate the region’s cosmopolitanism and ingenuity. While being grounded in ...

Immanuel Kant was against revolutions. In 1793 he described them as the work of ‘political criminals’ and ‘injustice in the highest degree’. He accepted, on the other hand, that they sometimes turned ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. By the end of 1895 Oscar Wilde’s life was in ruins as he sat in Reading Gaol facing public disgrace, bankruptcy and ...

In November 2022, archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Philadelphia, two hours south of Cairo, discovered a clump of papyri in a shallow grave. On one of them were written nearly a hundred ...