Congratulations to Donald Sassoon who is part of the sixteen strong longlist for the 2019 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Awards with his magnum opus The Anxious Triumph: A Global History of Capitalism 1860-1914 (Allen Lane). The longlist offers Read More

Lisa Hilton’s sensational three part historical docudrama series Charles I: Downfall of a King airs next week (9th, 10th and 11th July at 9pm) on BBC4. The first episode Two Worlds Collide begins in 1641 with John Pym plotting to limit the King’s Read More

Huge congratulations to Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the Oxford Internet Institute, on winning the prestigious CogX 2019 Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of AI Ethics. CogX is a festival of AI and emerging technologies. Read more about Read More

Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt has been announced as Chair of Judges for this year’s Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize. Founded in 1988, the Prize has championed outstanding popular science writing for over 30 years. The author of the winning book receives Read More

Congratulations to Andrew Keen, whose podcast series Keen on Democracy has been selected as one of twelve feature shows on LitHub Radio, the audio channel on the world’s post popular literary website. The partnership will begin in May as all the episodes, including Read More

Michael Dine, a physicist at University of California, Santa Cruz has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honours a US scientist can receive. Dine, who is affiliated with the Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP), has Read More