The story of the pigeon reveals a far more fascinating animal than their present urban representatives would suggest. They’ve in fact played various helpful roles in human existence since they were first domesticated by the Sumerians four thousand years ago. This piece examines a World War II plan that used them to gather intelligence and spread misinformation.
Written in an informal, irreverent style, a profile of a woman who would live an extraordinary life, from growing up in Martinique to surviving the Revolution, to Empress of the French alongside her husband Napoleon.
A story about the recovery of an aircraft carrier that had been sunk in the Coral Sea during the Second World War, replete with original documents and photographs of the sinking ship and the recovery mission.
A fine piece about the story behind a powerful image of injured US Marines in the Vietnam War.
The story of Guantanamo Bay before its most recent, and most controversial, use as a prison camp.
A piece covering the hornets nest stirred up in scientific and archaeological communities by a paper using DNA analysis to suggest large scale revisions to the story of human migration and habitation over the ages.
The story of Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, currently being portrayed on screen by Rachel Weisz in the awards season contender The Favourite.
The first instalment of a two part look at Catherine de’ Medici’s storied life, running from her birth into one of the most powerful families in Europe, to a precarious position as an unpopular Dauphine of France, pleading her fate with her father-in-law Francis 1st.
The New Yorker devoted its August 31st 1946 issue in its entirety to this article on the nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima a year earlier. The article would later be described, in the same magazine’s August 31st 2016 issue, as “a landmark in journalism, in publishing, and in humanity’s awareness of itself and its own awful potential.”
The story of Britain’s little known 20th century conflicts, including a protracted and violent engagement in Oman.