Britain used to be the world’s richest country. These six books explain how it came to be, and why it is no longer ...

with Gary Younge and David Edgerton. A new film from Steve McQueen is about to hit cinema screens: Blitz. Set during the devastating German bombing raids of 1940 to 1941, it follows Saiorse Ronan as ...

T hose attending COP29, the United Nations climate conference, which opens in Baku, Azerbaijan, on November 11th, can expect ...

If you are bothered about climate change – and who isn’t? – you’ll soon come across references to the “energy transition”.

David Edgerton is a myth-buster extraordinaire. Whether explaining how new technologies did not at once supersede old ones (steamships were slow to overtake clippers) or demonstrating that Britain was ...

Millions of Americans head to the polls to cast their ballots in one of the tightest races in modern US history. Romaine Bostick reports from Detroit, Anna Edgerton from Raleigh, North Carolina, and ...

This book is opinionated, iconoclastic and very often right. David Edgerton begins by pointing out that Britain’s victory in the Second World War is ‘hardly commemorated’. In 2010 the government ...