Tag: history

• The horrific consequences of rubber’s toxic past

  July 24, 2019

  The black-and-white photograph shows a man, perched on the edge of a wooden deck, looking down at two objects. At first, you can’t take in what they are. In the… more ›

• The forgotten Indian inventor who dazzled London

  July 14, 2019

  His countrymen hailed him as the “Indian Edison” after the famed American inventor. International investors believed that his inventions could revolutionise the global printing industry; and he won the support… more ›

• The Descendants of Slaves in Nigeria Fight for Equality

  July 14, 2019

  On a sunny morning in November, 2018, twelve men and two women gathered in a lavishly furnished living room in Oguta, a town in southeastern Nigeria, with the air-conditioning at… more ›

• Revolution! Latin American photography – in pictures

  June 13, 2019

  From the photos by Alberto Korda that helped canonise Che Guevara to snatched street images of resistance, new show Urban Impulses embraces a turbulent half-century of revolvers and rebellion https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2019/jun/13/revolution-latin-american-photography-in-pictures more ›

• The Dressing Rooms of Broadway: 33 Photos Over Nearly a Century

  June 9, 2019

  What performers take off (and put on), as told in 33 photographs and the words of Jesse Green, co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. “Some dressing rooms are… more ›

• When the Web Loses Its Memory

  April 4, 2019

  Diana poured her passionate fandom into Thorvaenn, her Tumblr account, for years. Marvel and Thor in particular became the primary focus for the GIFs she made, for her meticulous recommendations,… more ›

• Billionaire warlords: Why the future is medieval

  April 3, 2019

  SEAN MCFATE: The United States, especially, has been now accustomed, for 25 years, as being the universal and unitary superpower. That’s not going to last forever. I think most people… more ›

• Mansa Musa: The richest man who ever lived

  March 11, 2019

  Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world, according to the 2019 Forbes billionaires’ list released this week. With an estimated fortune of $131bn (£99bn) he is… more ›

• The Spirituality of Africa

  February 22, 2019

  One of Jacob Olupona’s earliest memories in Massachusetts is of nearly freezing in his apartment as a graduate student at Boston University during the great snowstorm of 1978. “I had… more ›

• The Poesis of Mimesis in Les Maîtres Fous: Looking Back at the Conspiratorial Ethnography of Jean Rouch

  January 3, 2019

  While on a surface level the film recounts an African possession ritual which critically burlesques colonialism, many viewers found it to have a colonialist perspective, exoticising “primitive” practices and reinforcing… more ›