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By Tom Anderson Mention ‘comics’ and, today, your first thought is quite likely to be of larger-than-life American superhero comic books....

By Tom Anderson Ever since the power of science and technology to change the world was widely recognised, people have grappled with the...

By Tom Anderson In the roughly 45 years of the Cold War, the great naval buildup by the United States and her allies, and the more modest...

By Tom Anderson The game of Pachinko is almost synonymous with modern Japan. Popular in part because it represents a loophole in...

By Tom Anderson In the previous article, I noted that while there were a number of proxy conflicts between East and West during the Cold...

By Tom Anderson In these ‘Chains of Consequences’ articles, I have generally explored a single strand of consequence from a happenstance...

By Tom Anderson Song lyrics and band names reveal clues about the past. This should be obvious, on the face of it. Naturally bands take...

By Tom Anderson As the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British government knew that it would become necessary to...

By Tom Anderson The eyes of the world were turned to Paris on August 31st, 1997, when Diana, Princess of Wales died from injuries...

By Tom Anderson As the Second World War ended, the Cold War began. The Soviet Union and the Western Allies had always been uneasy...

By Tom Anderson THE sun is setting— Can’t you hear A something in the distance Howl!!? I wonder if it’s— Yes!! it is That horrid Google...

By Tom Anderson In May 2016, a child climbed into a zoo enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden and was grabbed and dragged...

By Tom Anderson Some years ago, when I was in the final stages of writing up my PhD thesis, I decided I needed a suitably...

By Tom Anderson The name ‘Pacific’ Ocean means ‘Peaceful’; it was so named by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 because he found favourable...

By Tom Anderson “Did you hear about the man who stole a calendar? He got twelve months.” – old Christmas cracker joke​ Since the dawn of...

By Tom Anderson Christmas is a festival which has reached around the world, and given birth to a host of different traditions in...

By Tom Anderson World War II has, for understandable reasons, left a long shadow on our cultural memory. Not only the greatest war the...

By Tom Anderson In my previous ‘Consequences’ article, I described how the near miss of a gunman led to the writing of The Wind in the...

By Tom Anderson World War One was said to be ‘the war to end all wars’. The fact that we now have to append a number to it is testament...

By Tom Anderson How a Scotsman’s Alcoholism and an Englishman’s Bad Aim Created Modern Children’s Literature Kenneth Grahame was, as one...