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ART by two people described as "leading figures of British modernism" will be on display together for the first time in an exhibition…

Architect and safety campaigner who listened to tenants’ views on postwar tower blocks

Fordham said: ‘I was drawn by the two voices of the Arctic: that of the hauntingly beautiful, cold, silent landscape and that of the Inuit’

My contribution to relocation of Nigeria’s capital to Abuja hasn’t been recognised – 90-year-old Lawal Published 2:39 pm A former Chairman, Oyo State Hospitals Management Board, Dr Wahab Lawal, tells OLUFEMI OLANIYI about his educational background and why he voluntarily joined the Nigerian Army during the civil war, among sundry other issues When What type of family were you born into? I was born into a polygamous family. Everybody was trying to be something but God helped me. I later w...

The forgotten history of the teenage immigrant who invented Durex condoms Lucian Landa’s centrality to the modern condom has gone unrecognised. Jung Yeon-Je/AFP Around 975 Durex condoms are sold every minute. The global condom market is predicted to grow to over $11 billion by 2023, and Durex is in the privileged position of being the world’s most popular brand. Yet until recently, the young man who invented Durex’s mass-produced condom had been forgotten – even by the manufacturer ...

This episode of The Conversation’s In Depth Out Loud podcast features the story of Lucian Landau, the forgotten man who invented the technology that made Durex boom. Jessica Borge, Digital Collections (Scholarship) Manager at King’s College London Archives and Research Collections and a Visiting Fellow in Digital Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, explains her research into who actually invented Durex condoms. She discovered that the technology behind Durex was invented by Lucian ...

Around 975 Durex condoms are sold every minute. The global condom market is predicted to grow to over US$11 billion (£8 billion) by 2023, and Durex is in the privileged position of being the world’s most popular brand. Yet until recently, the young man who invented Durex’s mass-produced condom had been forgotten – even by the manufacturer itself. The origins of Durex go back to the London Rubber Company, which began trading in 1915 and specialised in importing modern, disposable condoms...