2 July 2009 | Facilities Management World

What movies tell us about the workplace

The history of the cinema reveals much about how people have interpreted the world of work

29 June 2009 | spiked

Let’s go back to the Moon – and beyond

As the 40th anniversary of the first manned moon landing approaches, backward attitudes here on Earth have tainted our view of lunar exploration

15 January 2009 | Blueprint

Sex, men and cars

Two new books on cars have much – but not everything – to recommend them 457kB

17 August 2008 | Design magazine, July 1982

Interim report

Interview with the late Herman Kahn, the man who pretty much invented forecasting

16 July 2008 | Radio 4

Nothing Romantic about environmentalists

The great nineteenth-century English poets waxed lyrical about nature, but they still believed in humanity - unlike today’s eco-pessimists

26 October 2007 | spiked

Clausewitz after 9/11

The Prussian master's brilliant analytical method in On War provides richer insights into the contemporary wars against terrorism than anything his glib critics have come up with

4 October 2007 | spiked

Sputnik: when American fears went into orbit

When the Soviets put the first man-made satellite into space, 50 years ago today, the event launched an era of US self-doubt that continues to this day

17 August 2007 | Design Week, 14 June 1991

Soaring flights of fancy: Howard Hughes, the Spruce Goose and American power

Back in 1991, when it had only just won the Cold War, the US looked shakier than it does today. And yet...

16 April 2007 | spiked

Remembering the Moscow Trials

Amid today's craze for anniversaries, there's one episode in history that nobody – especially on the left – wants to talk about

13 February 2007 | Spiked

War and deception in the Netherlands

Black Book, Paul Verhoeven’s thriller about the Dutch Resistance to Nazi rule, is a cracking movie – and it raises important questions, too

10 November 2006 | Radio 3 Free Thinking festival

It's not where you come from, it's where you're going that matters

Matthew Sweet introduces and Loyd Grossman chairs a four-way debate on history, held in Liverpool with author Kenan Malik, historian Juliet Gardiner and novelist Howard Jacobson

4 November 2006 | Radio 4 – the Today programme

Is genealogy one more aspect of today's 'bottom up' democratising movements?

Debate with historian Juliet Gardiner on family trees, roots and all that

19 August 2006 | From the archives: the next step, August 1986

The Moscow Trials, August 1936

Seventy years ago this week, radios all over the world broadcast the sound of fallen Bolshevik Party leaders confessing, at a packed, dingy court in the capital of the Soviet Union, to crimes they had never committed 48kB

12 June 2006 | From the Archives: The Listener, 12 June 1986

Naval supremacy still rules the world

From the North Sea to Ronald Reagan's 600-ship navy, it was the same story: who controlled the seas, controlled the Earth 36kB

30 March 2006 | exclusive to Woudhuysen.com

Computer games and sex difference

This paper looks at some of the intellectual history that surrounds the politics of difference between men and women and asks four questions:

1. Are the differences between men and women around the making and use of computer games to do with culture, or with biology?
2. Are occupational segregation and the paucity of female games programming jobs part of a wider problem of discrimination in engineering, computer science and the IT industry?
3. Will games only fully appeal to women if women programme them?
4. Is the playing of game products by women unequivocally a Good Thing?