Mirrors of the Economy - Prijzen

Before the Deluge

Ever since the French Revolution, Madame de Pompadour's comment, Apres moi, le deluge (after me, the deluge), has looked like a callous if accurate prophecy of the political cataclysms that began in...

Peenemunde Raid

On the night of 17-18 August 1943, RAF Bomber Command attacked a remote research establishment on the German Baltic coast. The site was Peenemunde, where Hitler's scientists were developing both the V...

Ireland

Working Lives

In the early 1950s Britain was still the most urbanized and industrialized nation in the world, a global power in shipbuilding and the leading European producer of coal, steel, cars and textiles. For...