State-sponsored disappearance plays into the most primal of human fears – to vanish without a trace. The modern era started with Chile’s US-backed coup on September 11 1973
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Self-study has a rich history in science that dates back hundreds of years.
Business bosses appear reluctant to take part in open debate about their firms’ contribution to growing regional inequalities.
Wars are no longer fought in the trenches, they’re fought in the streets and civilians are on the frontline.
What will ransomware attackers focus on next?
More than half our interviewees described feelings of profound anguish as long COVID forced them to doubt their identity and question their life purpose
The harsher verdicts imposed on two child mothers shows why the UK’s law of infanticide remains so important, more than a century after it was introduced
This later generation of ‘conchies’ often felt torn between their duties to society and their beliefs amid a much more obvious battle between good and evil.
‘I no longer exist, I have become a construct of their imagination. It is the ultimate act of dehumanisation.’
I have spent five years tracking down more than 10,000 accounts of wildlife by naturalists, travellers, historians and even poets, all written between 1529 and 1772
Two experts in social care examine the issues that are derailing the care sector in the UK – and look at the case for a National Care Service.
The new NHS workforce plan for England promises a 50% increase in GP training places by 2031. But the challenges GPs are wrestling with go much deeper.
Today’s reports of crumbling, dilapidated and dangerous hospital buildings are a far cry from the design ambitions extolled by early NHS architects and planners.
To fully understand the extent of climate-related dangers the Arctic – and our planet – is facing, we must focus on organisms too small to be seen with the naked eye.
The UK needed workers, but government documents reveal British subjects in the Caribbean were still actively discouraged from entering the country
When people think about the Windrush generation, they are unlikely to imagine someone like my father, who was not black but a person of Indian-Caribbean heritage.
Members of Preston’s Caribbean community describe their experiences as migrants arriving and putting down deep roots in this provincial town.
Brainwashed, fearful and abused: convent life worked to erase a sense of individual identity through adherence to strict rules.
Women who served in unofficial combat and intelligence roles during the Afghanistan war offer brutally honest accounts of their experiences.
Beatrix Potter’s silence concerning her sources means the Brer Rabbit folktales that helped create her stories are passed over without acknowledgement or celebration.
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