Quentin Tarantino’s new film is a violent revenge fantasy set in the years leading up to the US Civil War.
Why did the Industrial Revolution happen here? Why was Britain the first country to industrialise and why did it begin in the 18th century?
Channel 4’s new six part thriller Utopia is set in an unremittingly bleak London, beaten down by recession.
News photographer Don McCullin has covered wars, famines and conflict zones since the early 1960s.
In his latest book, Bad Pharma, journalist and psychiatrist Ben Goldacre narrows his sights on a single powerful target—the global pharmaceuticals industry.
Chasing Ice Photographer James Balog has been using time lapse cameras to record the retreat of 95 percent of the world’s glaciers.
Gil’s music and poetry have always been popular in Britain, despite them being about conditions that are far removed from here. Why is that?
Phyllida Lloyd’s all female production of William Shakespeare’s play Julius Caesar is exhilarating.
William Morris was one of the most respected and admired decorative artists and writers in Britain in the 19th century.
India under the Mughal Empire, which stretched from 1526 to 1858, was for a time one of the world’s most advanced societies. There were as many as 120 large cities. Delhi was said to be as big as Europe’s largest city, Paris, and was an economic and political powerhouse.
Photographer and filmmaker William Klein offers a guide to the pre-digital era, from the blinding fluorescent signs of Manhattan to the smoke swept streets of Paris ’68.
