History

Why Britain hates Thatcher – and what the country owes to her

As a British journalist once put it, only two facts are indisputable in Margaret Thatcher's reign: that she entered No.…

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“Concorde”: the story of one supersonic failure

The story of the Concorde's creation The idea of a supersonic passenger airplane first emerged in the late 1950s in…

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“An Orgy of the Righteous.” Alexei Zimin on the history of British thought. Chapter XI

Every nation has its guilty pleasures - somewhat embarrassing, reprehensible, or even shameful pleasures. Russians drink brine; Lithuanians consider zeppelins,…

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