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The Secret Lives of MI6’s Top Female Spies

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands December 8, 2022December 8, 2022

“For the first time ever, SIS officers reveal why women often make the best spies for our times.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

14 Hours in The Queue to See Queen Elizabeth’s Coffin

by Carolyn Wells September 23, 2022October 19, 2022

“Stood among strangers in search of history, I had a strange epiphany.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Reckoning: Rape Culture and the Crisis in British Schools

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 19, 2021October 19, 2022

“After Scarlett Mansfield collated 200 accounts of sexual harassment, inspectors put her former school on notice. Could it be the first of many?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘The Mark of the Beast’: Georgian Britain’s Anti-Vaxxer Movement

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 6, 2021October 19, 2022

“The arguments made by today’s anti-vaxxers often echo those put forth by their nineteenth-century antecedents: claims of inefficacy, allegations of ghastly side effects, appeals to religion.”

Posted inNonfiction

Marmalade: A Very British Obsession

by Olivia Potts July 23, 2020October 18, 2022

Captain Scott took jars to the Antarctic with him, and Edmund Hillary took one up Everest. Marmalade is part of the British national myth. Livvy Potts wants to know why.

Posted inFeatured, Food, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Sandwich Whisperer of Victoria Street

by benhuberman November 30, 2017October 19, 2022

The art of sandwich-making requires “tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

How the Sandwich Consumed Britain

by benhuberman November 24, 2017October 19, 2022

To perfect a culinary staple as ubiquitous and timeless as the sandwich “is a question of using tenacity, knowledge, know-how, flair.”

Posted inReading List, Unapologetic Women

The Unknowable Diana, 20 Years On: A Reading List

by Erin Blakemore August 31, 2017October 19, 2022

Why were we personally affected by a woman few knew and even fewer ever understood?

Posted inEditor's Pick

Will London Fall?

by benhuberman April 13, 2017October 19, 2022

In an increasingly insular Britain, the world’s most cosmopolitan capital is bracing for an uncertain future.

Posted inFeatured, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Swan (Mascot) that Would Not Be Tamed

by benhuberman April 4, 2017October 19, 2022

The story of a football team’s mascot, the man inside the costume, and the town that rallied around its local hero.

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