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...work of Anaximander and Empedocles. Anaximander proposed that animals could be transformed from one kind to another, and Empedocles speculated that they could be made up of various combinations of pre-existing parts. However, evolutionary theories were subsequently prevented from developing and challenging the belief of special creation for some fifteen centuries, due to...

...worked at Bletchley Park, breaking enemy codes. The process – given the codename ‘ULTRA’ – played a key role in the Allied victory. To make it work, the British government’s foreign intelligence service, MI6, recruited some of the cleverest people they could find. Because so much of the recruitment was through personal connections or Oxford and Cambridge...

...work of some famous illustrators for children understand how the use of images in children’s books has changed over time and what it means to create books for the specific audiences of children and their carers...Exploring books for children: words and pictures: 1 Words and pictures in children’s fiction through the ages - There is evidence that children were reading...