Mars and The War of The Worlds

Mars and The War of The Worlds

This month, three of Earth’s countries will have exploration equipment arriving on Mars, or to its orbit. China, the United Arab Emirates and the USA have all sent rockets to the Red Planet to discover more of its mysteries. Mars has enthralled humanity for centuries,...
Harriet Tubman: Anti-Slavery Activist

Harriet Tubman: Anti-Slavery Activist

America’s new Biden administration moved to put anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman on the American $20 bill last month, after Donald Trump previously delayed the decision, branding it ‘pure political correctness’. This is a remarkable step in the right...
Opinion: How Orwellian Are We?

Opinion: How Orwellian Are We?

George Orwell died on the 21st January 1950. He forecast a world where governments controlled people’s lives completely, with his most famous warning given in the form of the dystopian novel 1984. So can we look around today and claim he was right? Or, does it remain...
Sci-Fi Pioneers: 2: Wells and Lovecraft

Sci-Fi Pioneers: 2: Wells and Lovecraft

Science Fiction From The Social To The Cosmic H.G. Wells H.G. Wells (September 21, 1866 – August 13, 1946) was an English author, historian, and satirist. He is best known as the writer of such novels as The Time Machine and War of the Worlds. As with Jules...
Sci-Fi Pioneers: 1: Shelley and Verne

Sci-Fi Pioneers: 1: Shelley and Verne

Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley was an English novelist and pioneer of the science fiction genre. She is best known as the author of Frankenstein. She was born on August 30, 1797, to William Godwin, a renowned philosopher and political journalist, and...
The Diary of Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Who Was Samuel Pepys? Samuel Pepys (pronounced ‘Peeps’) was a British public servant, naval admiral and later MP, who was born to tailor John Pepys and his wife Margaret, on Fleet Street, London in February 1633. In 1642, when Samuel was nine years-old, the English...