Antarctic

A pink tissue box with a white tissue coming out of it

From Operation Snuffles to Killer Kleenex: the forgotten history of the secret Cold War experiments in Antarctica has just been uncovered

Douglas Mawson

Douglas Mawson: a tale of tragedy and survival in the Antarctic.

Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton

Ernest Shackleton, the great Antarctic explorer of the Heroic Age

Ada Blackjack: how the 'female Robinson Crusoe' escaped death in the Arctic.

Japanese school girls wear protective masks to guard against the influenza outbreak, February 1920. (Photo by Getty Images)

A history of pandemics: from Spanish Flu to Covid-19.