In 1978, Ride and five other women became the first group of female astronauts in the U.S. A new book by a longtime curator ...

NASA’s Class of 1978, ‘represent the most competent, talented, and experienced people available to us today.’ ...

The deliberate use of sewing, weaving, knitting and ceramics in creating art became part and parcel of a larger feminist ...

Now this cultural “renaissance” is the subject of a new exhibition at Tate Modern, which brings together some 250 pieces – ...

A varied bunch, the latter include Mario Monicelli, Pietro Germi, Mauro Bolognini, Abel Gance, Luchino Visconti, Valerio Zurlini, Philippe de Broca, Federico Fellini ...

Ah, the 1970s. An era of unprecedented creativity and freedom where fashion and music were the defining elements of cultural ...

A major legal claim has been filed in the UK against pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, accusing the firm of knowingly selling baby powder contaminated with asbestos.

Famous for his groundbreaking shows, the American stage director, who died this summer at the age of 83, was also a great ...

It is on the border between the ordinary and the peculiar that Parr likes to work. He points out, more than once, ...

Long before Diana Wojsznis of Portland, Oregon, became an avid trail runner, she was a teenager with unexplained chronic pain. After years of suffering, at 28, she was diagnosed with a severe form of ...

By contrast, the chancellor of the exchequer, Geoffrey Howe, suggested to Thatcher that the ‘option of managed decline’ ...