Birds have, historically, not gotten a very good wrap from humans. They might be cute, their songs might be pretty, but they’re not very bright… after all, their brains are so tiny anything they do must basically come from instinct, right?

How do you put your own stamp on the work of the most famous English writer of all time? How do you cover Shakespeare? That’s the question Hogarth Press is asking some of the best authors working today. Atwood, St Aubyn,

When you think of the Silk Road, there’s a good chance that it conjures up images of exotic locations out of history. Stories of Marco Polo and the great Western explorers making their way into the unknown East.

Just over a century ago, Einstein produced his general theory of relativity and predicted ripples in the fabric of space-time: gravitational waves. But this was theoretical physics, there was no direct proof,

On a tennis court in Rome, two vicious opponents face each other. One is the famous painter, Caravaggio, the other the Spanish poet Francisco de Quevedo. They play for honour and pride – the tennis racquet a substitute for their swords – and in the sta...

Advances in medicine and in health care mean that most of us are living longer, but have they also meant that we are dying longer? What rights should someone with a terminal illness have to choose the timing and manner of their own passing?

You wake up to rumbling, and your house is gone, ruined, destroyed. Your neighbourhood is gone. Your city is gone. And in their place: trees. Giant, full-grown trees. From the common to the long-deceased. And up in the branches,

What do you know about the clothes you’re wearing? Where were they made? What are they made from? Grab the nearest tag and have a look, I’ll wait. The rise and rise of fast fashion has changed the way that many of us view clothing. After all,

Have you ever been captured by the magic of a city? Perhaps you’ve been on a holiday and felt like things were out of your hands? In The Lovers’ Guide to Rome, the new book by Mark Lamprell, you might find the answer why.

So much of our foundational knowledge, the thinkers that make up our syllabus today, can be traced to a brief moment in human history – to the 17th Century. In science: Newton, Galalileo, Pascal, Kepler, Wren,