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Former President John Agyekum Kufuor has been honoured by his alma mater, the University of Oxford’s Exeter College, with the unveiling of two art works bearing

The rollout: 4. The volunteers This is the fourth part of a four-part series. See also our profiles of the district nurse bringing hope to vulnerable patients,  the people who turned Salisbury Cathedral into a mass vaccine centre and the researcher combating vaccine disinformation Sumit Rahman and Fran Monks Volunteer and documentary photographer England’s vaccination programme could not have happened […]

Greg Jenner talks about his latest book, Ask A Historian, which tackles 50 burning questions that people have about the past

Portrait photographer Fran Monks realised the technique of taking pictures of people over Zoom video calls had found its moment when the first lockdown happened last March. With many commissions postponed and people confined to their homes, she had started photographing subjects from all over the world over the internet when she became fascinated by the idea of creating portraits of vaccine trial volunteers. She wanted to celebrate their contribution to solving the health crisis. She sa...

Coronavirus: Vaccine-trial participants pose for portraits Published British photographer Fran Monks created portraits of Covid-19 vaccine-trial volunteers to celebrate their contribution to solving the coronavirus crisis. image copyrightFran Monks image captionVaccine trial participant Nicola in her home "I became fascinated by individuals who were helping develop a vaccine and find a way out of the pandemic," said Monks. "I wanted to know what motivated people to step forward for the trials a...

Restrictions in Northern Ireland are set to stay in place until April but some pupils will return.

Editor’s pick: Ian Kershaw on postwar Europe In this episode from our archive, Ian Kershaw offers his take on how the continent has developed since the Second World War Published: January 7, 2021 at 3:20 pm In this archive episode from 2018, recorded to mark HistoryExtra’s 500th episode, historian Sir Ian Kershaw offers his take on how the continent has developed over the past seven decades since the Second World War. Advertisement Enter your emai...

Published: December 17, 2020 at 12:05 pm Charles Sobhraj was once asked what makes someone a murderer. “Either they have too much feeling and cannot control themselves,” he answered, “or they have no feelings. It is one of the two.” Advertisement Sobhraj definitely falls into the latter camp. Born in Saigon in 1944 to an Indian father and Vietnamese mother (and brought up at a young age by his mother and her subsequent partner, a French Army adjutant sergeant stationed in Fren...