In October 1951, after a six-year absence, Winston Churchill was returned to office as British Prime Minister at the head of a Conservative government. His
As a cultural studies scholar, my work on historical novels from Uruguay at first glance seems to stand out from a website titled ‘History Matters’. Whilst many consider historical fiction to be the frivolous sibling
Exhibitions as a genre rely on representational history; they rely on an object or a constrained collection to represent a much larger set of ideas.
Jonas Salk would have been 105 today, 28 October. He is remembered as the inventor of the polio vaccine who, when asked how much money he stood to make, declared: ‘There is no patent. Could
In Margaret Atwood’s 1988 novel, Cat’s Eye, a character says of her sisters: 'Cordelia says they are gifted. This sounds like vaccinated, something that's done
Ya se te acreca la hora de tu juicio Senador Vetalicio! Le gritan los fantasmas de nuestros compañeros... Senator-for-life, the hour of your judgement awaits!