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It wasn’t even until the late 19th century that this was codified into law.
The likes of Sheffield, Bilbao and Leipzig have staged a spectacular comeback.
Today’s classes were born out of the machine age. They are not fit for purpose in 21st century Britain.
We live in changing times. Let’s hope the power brokers work out how to manage them.
Five million people work in the U.S. transportation sector. It’s unclear where they’ll end up as driverless technology takes off.
How the rise and fall of coal mining is central to fully understanding modern Britain.
Something similar to E.P. Thompson’s story of England in the first three decades of the 1800s has happened in Australia between the mid-1980s and today.
Are we ready for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to design how we move into a new era of capitalism?
Despite plenty of labour, land and a banking industry, Westeros has been more or less the same for some 6,000 years.
The era in which humans have had the power to alter the conditions for all life on Earth is widely thought to have begun with the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. This era has been dubbed the “Anthropocene…
What can two periods of industrialisation nearly two centuries apart tell us about how economies change and the demands their change place on the planet? Today, China leads the wave of emerging economies…
From 1865 glaciers in the Alps began retreating at unprecedented levels and new research conducted by the University of Michigan…
Right now if you want to know where you are, your smartphone map will tell you instantly. But these technologies only exist because of the efforts of 18th century geographers, explorers, astronomers and…
There are times when only clichés work. There is a 400-year-old elephant in the science lab and the emperor, frankly, has no clothes. It was in 1605 that Francis Bacon, a British politician and lawyer…
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Chief Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes; Deputy Director for the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science; Deputy Director for the Centre of Excellence for 21st Century Weather, Australian National University
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