History and Biography General

The Peace Symbol is instantly recognised the world over. It continues to appear as wars and nuclear threats darken our prospects, decade after decade. Where does it come from and what does it mean?

Gloucester Crescent is a curving, leafy street, tucked between Camden Town and Primrose Hill, filled with the sound of clacking typewriters and children playing.

When the Berlin Wall came down, the files of the East German secret police, the much-dreaded Stasi, were opened and read. And among the shocking stories revealed was that of the Stasi's infiltration of the Church.

'Life for De Quincey was either angels ascending on vaults of cloud or vagrants shivering on the city streets.'

An inspirational ‘hairmoir’, Hair Apparent embraces the powerful legacy of Afro hair across several countries and seven decades of social, political and cultural change.

HEYDAY brings to life one of the most extraordinary periods in modern history. Over the course of the 1850s, the world was reshaped by technology, trade, mass migration and war.

This collection of essays draws inspiration from the late James Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten (1977).

There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end.