The advent of steam transformed the fishing industry after 500 years of trawling by sail. But overfishing and declining stocks put the British industry at loggerheads with that of other nations.
The audio version of an in depth article from The Conversation, which explores how antisemitism today is carved from and sustained by powerful precedents and inherited stereotypes.
Anti-cholera inoculation in Calcutta in 1894.
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A long read on how science’s dark imperial past still shapes research today – and what to do about it.
Police teams bag up swabs from railings outside The Maltings shopping centre, where former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found critically ill.
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Although some experts still disagree about the cause of Prince Albert’s untimely demise, the most likely culprit seems to be the bacterium Salmonella typhi.