Science and technology

Codebreakers work in Hut 3 at Bletchley Park during the Second World War

Second World War

Bletchley Park: Britain’s wartime intelligence factory

100 women who changed the world results. (Images by Getty Images)

100 Women Who Changed the World: your reactions

Marie Curie in her laboratory. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images)

First World War

Marie Curie (1867–1934): her life, achievements and legacy

Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin stands beside an American flag, soon after landing on the Moon as part of the Apollo 11 mission. (Photo by NASA/Liaison)

Opinion: Was the Moon landing really a great leap for mankind?

From The Library

Podcast Website large Simon Winchester

Industrial revolution

Making the modern world

The bikini was showcased to the world for the first time in July 1946. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

8 weird things that happened in July through history

Alan M Turing and colleagues working on the Ferranti Mark I Computer, 1951.

Second World War

Alan Turing: The man, the enigma

From The Library

A female computer programmer demonstrates a new computer in the 1960s.

The changing role of women in British computing

Charles Lindbergh, photographed alongside the ‘Spirit of St. Louis’.

A pioneering flight: Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic crossing

Peter Mayhew, Harrison Ford, Alec Guinness and Mark Hamill, on-set of the film Star Wars

Star Wars: why did the film make history?

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Q&A: Samuel Morse invented the Morse code, but how did he do it, how long did it take, and how long before it was accepted?

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Life of the Week: Albert Einstein

A 15th-century map of the world illustrating a Latin edition of Ptolemy's the 'Geography'. (Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

General prehistory

12 giant leaps for mankind – from carnivorism to Magna Carta

Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. (Photo by Getty Images)

Yuri Gagarin: 8 things you (probably) didn’t know about the first man in space