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...history. The latter might be made palatable by being wrapped in tales of adventure, perhaps told through the eyes of a fictional boy or girl. But the old assumptions of British leadership, and settler kinship, were still there. Over time, these annuals’ names changed to reflect the acceleration of decolonisation. The Empire Youth Annual became the Empire and...

...history, human manufacturing was not constrained by the limits of nature. At the time of this discovery, nobody worried about the fact that synthetic polymers are unperishable. A century had to pass for us to realise that the need to preserve is a double-edged sword. In 1907 Baekeland invented Bakelite, which was the first fully synthetic plastic. During WWII the United...