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HE was the Prime Minister, a citizen of Southampton and the founder of a local newspaper.

Indians have historically never had the concept of a fixed weekly day off. It was the British who brought with them the idea of a mandatory Sunday holiday to our nation

Has the public schooling model outlived its usefulness? By Lindelani Mnisi Global economies and the unprecedented democratisation of information have changed the world. Given that the main purpose of school was to teach children the necessities to live and to work, is there no easier, or more effective, way to achieve that same goal two centuries later? By Paballo Chauke The fight for equality is valid but the burning down of our universities is not the revolution or decolonisation any of us sh...

The novelist, poet and womens rights campaigner Caroline Norton (1808-77) Credit: Bettmann Combining high society campery and historical scholarship in ways rivalling Nancy Mitford, Antonia Fraser, 88, is the great chronicler of melodramatic queens and fearsome princes, from Boadicea to Louis XIV, even Harold Pinter. She is peerless at pageantry, and no slouch when it comes to technical footnotes – there are plenty in her new book, The Case of the Married Woman, about the Factory Act (1833), ...

Professor Paul Salveson is a historian and writer and lives in Bolton. He is visiting professor in ‘Worktown Studies’ at the University of Bolton and author of several books on Lancashire history If you were a boy or girl growing up in Bolton in 1900, there’d be a strong chance that from the age of 12 you’d go to work as a ‘half-timer’ in the mills. The other half of the day would be spent at school. The system came into force in the 1830s, as a progressive measure to limit th...

A+ 由于新冠肺炎疫情打击，继近年出现的「美国衰落论」和「美国过度衰落论」的辩论后，美国近月又开始出现「痉挛论」（convulsionism）论述。本文尝试梳理美国社会正在经历的「道德痉挛」危机的历史轨迹和深层面向，进而探讨其文化根由，并研判未来发展。 10月初，美国《大西洋》（The Atlantic）杂志出版题为《美国正患有道德痉挛》（America Is Having a Moral Convulsion...