New Generation Thinker Seb Falk discusses the 14th-century monks who studied astronomy, wrote treatises and computing tables and designed new instruments. Show more

New Generation Thinker Edmund Richardson on the story of Alexander the Great's lost city, buried under Bagram air base in Afghanistan, a CIA detention site and wrecked Soviet tanks. Show more

New Generation Thinker Louisa Egbunike explores the legacy of the Biafran war, of which news reports, with their depictions of starving children, remain imprinted today. Show more

New Generation Thinker Katherine Cooper discusses the previously untold story of the work by British writers - including HG Wells - to save colleagues in Europe during World War II. Show more

Victoria Donovan explores post-war rebuilding in Soviet Russia and asks why the atheist communist regime was prepared to spend millions on the restoration of religious architecture. Show more

Matthew Smith discusses The Magic Years, a manuscript found in the American Psychiatric Association archives, written when the eradication of mental illness was believed possible. Show more

John Gallagher marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of possibly the greatest, but least known, book of travels of early modern England, Fynes Moryson's An Itinerary. Show more

New Generation Thinker Preti Taneja explores the creation of modern India, focusing in particular on the links between Letchworth Garden City in Hertfordshire and New Delhi. Show more

Christopher Harding discusses Tokyo in the early 20th century, a bustling, cosmopolitan capital of a growing empire, where the meaning of 'time' was hotly contested. Show more

New Generation Thinker Catherine Fletcher tells the story of her grandfather, Donald Hudson, who was a missionary in India in the turbulent years between 1941 and 1968. Show more