reshaped

100 years of the BBC: the rebels who reshaped broadcasting – and paid the price

100 years of the BBC: the rebels who reshaped broadcasting – and paid the price: In his 1941 book The Power Behind the Microphone, Peter Pendleton Eckersley, the BBC’s former chief engineer, described his “dream” for the future of radio and television: I see the interior of a living-room … flush against the wall there …

How plague reshaped colonial New England before the Mayflower even arrived

How plague reshaped colonial New England before the Mayflower even arrived: The English believed God communicated through plague – and viewed the epidemic which decimated Algonquian territory between 1616-19 as a sign. John Eliot Preaching to the Indians, Gift of Martha J. Fleischman and Barbara G. Fleischman, 1999, The Met The Europeans who began colonising …