Mitoe Matsumoto was three years and four months old when an atomic bomb exploded over Nagasaki at 11.02am on 9 August 1945. Eighty-one years later, the 84-year-old Japanese survivor says the experience
We studied together at the Royal College. He was two batches senior to me, but we were in the same Royal College Cadet Platoon. He was our cadet Sergeant in 1978 Platoon.
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Our ancestors’ ability to recognize water sources was crucial to their survival. As a result, the attraction to lustrous materials is deeply rooted in our evolutionary history and is evident among prehistoric
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Ninety-nine years ago, a frail, devoutly Catholic Irishwoman made a dramatic, albeit unsuccessful, attempt to alter the course of European history. Violet Gibson, a member of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy, fired a single
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A fossilized jawbone dredged from the seabed near Taiwan more than two decades ago has now been confirmed to belong to the elusive Denisovan species of archaic humans, marking a significant expansion
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by Our Economic Affairs Editor In the early 1930s, as the world staggered under the weight of the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover faced a crucial decision: whether to sign the Smoot-Hawley
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A recent study has unveiled remarkable findings about the genetic makeup of two women who lived in what is now Libya around 7,000 years ago. Their DNA, extracted from ancient remains found
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Recently declassified documents on the assassination of John F. Kennedy have reignited debate over the CIA’s role in monitoring Lee Harvey Oswald, offering fresh details on Cold War-era intelligence operations and secretive
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Perched on the edge of a river near the city of Siirt, Türkiye, is an archaeological site that offers a chance to completely rethink one of the most complex human stories: the
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by Eric Padraic X. Scanlan’s Rot is a searing examination of the corruption, exploitation, and decay inherent in colonial and imperial structures. With meticulous historical analysis and sharp prose, Scanlan dismantles the
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Argentina has announced plans to declassify government documents related to Nazi fugitives who fled to the country after World War II, shedding light on a long-secret chapter of its history. The move
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A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in a Yorkshire field is reshaping our understanding of the wealth and power dynamics in 1st century Britain. The Melsonby Hoard, a vast collection of over 800 items,
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A new study has provided a fascinating answer to the long-standing mystery of how iguanas, which are native to the Americas, ended up on the Pacific island of Fiji. According to researchers,
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When Babur, the great conqueror and founder of the Mughal Empire, first entered India with his armies in the 16th century, he was not impressed by how people dressed. The climate and
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If history is the scaffold upon which civilizations build their myths, then Inventing the Renaissance: The Myth of a Golden Age ruthlessly dismantles one of the grandest illusions of all: the Renaissance
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by Eric In The Dead Sea: A 10,000-Year History, the author excavates not merely the layers of sediment that compose the physical basin of this enigmatic inland sea but the strata of
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