An extract from Rebecca Stott’s novel Ghostwalk , which goes deep into the life of Sir Isaac...
Tag - People Past & Present
New paths to light
In north-central Nigeria, in the state of Kogi, two great rivers meet. One is the Niger, the other...
Georges Lemaître – The Father of the Big Bang
In the 1920s, astronomers knew that the universe was not static, but expanding. Most, including...
‘Truly the last of the great Vikings’: Captain John Hourie
One of the popular daily One O’Clock Toasts in the 2012 Festival was given by the Festival...
Luigi Fantappié and the physics of life
Eggs break and we cannot repair them, cups smash into pieces, and the dominant force in the world...
Letitia Hargrave in the Nor’ Wast
In 1837 HBC Chief Trader James Hargrave went Home to Scotland to find a suitable wife. It was the...
Washington Irving and the rediscovery of the lost centuries of...
The journey of two friends in Spain nearly two centuries ago began a process of rediscovery that...
Washington Irving and his Orkney family origins
Washington Irving (1783-1859) was the first American writer to be famous outside America. His two...
The Majorana mystery
March 25 is the 75th anniversary of one of the most baffling mysteries in science – the...