麻豆社

Back up to: The Essay

1. Killing Time in Imperial Japan

   10/10 Christopher Harding discusses Tokyo in the early 20th century.
2. Creating Modern India

   9/10 Preti Taneja on the architectural links between Letchworth Garden City and New Delhi.
3. England's First European

   8/10 Exploring Fynes Moryson's An Itinerary, a European travel book from the early 17th century
4. The Magic Years

   7/10 Medical historian Matthew Smith explores 1970s US psychiatry: a time of hope and promise.
5. Faith, Fire and the Family

   6/10 Catherine Fletcher on the story of her grandfather, a missionary in India.
6. Russia's Sacred Ruins

   5/10 Victoria Donovan explores the dilemmas of post-war reconstruction in Soviet Russia.
7. The British Writer and the Refugee

   4/10 Katherine Cooper on the work by British writers to save colleagues in Europe during WWII.
8. In the Shadows of Biafra

   3/10 New Generation Thinker Louisa Egbunike explores the legacy of the Biafran war.
9. Alexander the Great's Lost City

   2/10 The story of Alexander the Great's lost city, buried beneath Bagram air base, Afghanistan.
10. Monks, Models and Medieval Time

    1/10 Seb Falk discusses the 14th-century monks who studied astronomy.