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  1. Fathers of invention

    John Holter and Roald Dahl both had sons with hydrocephalus. In striving to help their children, their insights and innovations ushered in a new medical era, writes Richard Hayward, winner of The...

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  2. The diary of a space geek

    Kevin Fong is immersed in UK efforts to regain a foothold in the space programme. In excerpts from his diary he records the difficulties of balancing extraterrestrial interests with two real jobs....

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  3. Step out from the martyr's shadow

    The history and heroes of Ireland have cast the Irish as victims. That portrayal needs to end, says Marianne Elliott. I cannot recall when I first encountered the legend of Robert Emmet. I do not...

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  4. Understanding built into walls and windows

    Stirling University's Dementia Services Centre is working from the floor up to improve lives, writes Terry Philpot On July 16 1989, Mary Marshall was arranging her new desk on her first day as...

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  6. England of my father, aka 'the coloured influx'

    Archive virgin Sara Wajid was touched, appalled, thrilled and angered when working on Moving Here, a free website that contains 200 years of UK immigrant history. As a child, parents and primary...

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  7. Life - just as we know it

    If the world had been different, would humans still have evolved? Without doubt, says Simon Conway Morris. Imagine if evolution were run again. Would something as strange as a human again emerge?...

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  10. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel based on a visit to Surinam: "I do not intend, in giving you the history of this royal slave,...

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