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Is wealth good for your health?

Dramatic increases in life span over the past 300 years...

A recent best-seller claims that rapid communication across the world...

In the early 1880s, informal imperial expansion gave way to...

The improving survival rates of children, and the freedom to...

Better sanitation and hygiene, coupled with immunization, have dramatically reduced...

The current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa is probably...

Literature has always played a key role in social and...

1960 was the year of Africa. Over seventeen countries rid...

Christianity’s centre of gravity has shifted to the Global South. What do these changes mean for our understanding of the world’s largest religion?

This lecture examined the spread of diseases that accompanied European...