Emerante de Pradines's son, Richard Morse, tells us about his mother’s life and her commitment to de-demonising vodou culture through her music. Haiti expert Kate Hodgson, from University College Cork ...

So how did so many people actually believe that Martians were invading? For starters, we didn’t have a clear idea of what was on the surface of Mars yet. The space age was still decades away. So for ...

Orson Welles' trickery during his 1938 "War of the Worlds" broadcast — and newspapers' response to it — is an early lesson in ...