SAS Rogue Heroes series two: What's fact and what's fiction?
AS SAS Rogue Heroes comes roaring back on to our TV screens, Matt Nixson takes a closer look at the real - and invented - ...
Fly the US flag at half mast during Trump’s inauguration
There are odd quirks that occur as a result of this half mast. This includes the opening scene of Gilligan’s Island, showing ...
How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time
Later, we connected the first multi-service heterogeneous network outside the US ( Janet, the UK’s academic network ...
How Britain got its first internet connection – by the late pioneer who created the first password on the internet
Peter Kirstein had to overcome various hurdles to connect the UK to the internet, including intransigent governments, ...
Against Guilty History
J ohn A. Macdonald, the first prime minister of Canada, was born in 1815. Some years ago, as the bicentennial of Macdonald’s ...