My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing - that's really inspiring to me… — Melanie Fiona Copy Share Image
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Between 2001 and 2011, Brazil lifted 20 million people out of poverty and into its growing middle class, and in the last… — Peter Blair Henry Copy Share Image
The country is too often assumed to be a backward place: The First World has trouble remembering that Haitians were two centuries… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
