During the summer of 1947, flying saucers were capturing the world’s imagination against a backdrop of rising tensions ...

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A Nuclear Game tracks the spies operating behind the scenes in the Reagan era, Jonathan Wright takes a closer look at the ...

In the early 1980s, Oleg Gordievsky was arguably the most important spy in the world. This was not primarily because of his work for what was ostensibly his employer, the KGB, but because he was a ...

First published in 1974, Robert Pirsig’s philosophical novel Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance, a story of a road trip and a troubled father-son relationship, became a bestseller. Why? And ...

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Why did the Eurovision Song Contest begin? Eurovision was started by the European Broadcasting Union in 1956. “I think a lot of people mistake the establishment of Eurovision as some sort of postwar ...

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Ask a group of people today what the 18th-century polymath Benjamin Franklin should be remembered for the most, and chances are that a variety of answers will come up. Was he primarily a man of words, ...

As well as being a printer, publisher, philosopher, inventor and Founding Father of America, Benjamin Franklin also found time to become a French fashion icon – and almost became a swimming teacher ...

William Temple Franklin may not be a household name, but he played a significant role in American history, specifically by contributing to the early United States of America’s close relationship with ...