1949: The Chicago Theatre
The bright lights of the 'wonder theatre of the world' caught the attention of a young Stanley Kubrick
Features
Here you can explore our archive of long form pieces, written by expert historians. In these features, they explain where they found their ideas, how they crafted their stories, what new discoveries they have made and arguments they have proposed.
1924: The Death of Lenin
On 21 January 1924, the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin died. Here's how the news was reported in Britain.
1900: Mulberry Street, New York
A glimpse into Manhattan's teeming streets at the turn of the twentieth century
1918: Inside Amiens Cathedral
A journalist describes a poignant service in a barricaded and subdued church
A Blacksmith in Illinois
Bert Wikle was a member of the German-American Community in the early twentieth century
Harry Clifton and Brideshead’s Sebastian Flyte
The real-life inspiration for a classic character from fiction
The Unseen History of the Greek Intellectuals during the Roman Empire
Charles Freeman on the endurance of Greek culture
1879: Frederick Douglass
How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool
