Why more and more women are choosing to be childfree

Chy, a 33-year-old account manager from the Midlands, has also found a community of like-minded women online. In real life, while her parents and close friends have been supportive of her being childfree, her wider family could not understand her decision. “I come from an African background,” she says, explaining that many of her relatives […]

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Aurangzeb’s akhbarat: The empire that ran on news reports – and what they reveal about Mughal India

Beginning in 2007, he immersed himself in the Akhbarat-i Darbar-i Mualla (Newsletters of the Exalted Court), a vast collection preserved in archives across India and Britain. Working through more than 6,500 pages in Kolkata’s National Library, he followed princes, generals, courtiers, royal women, imperial eunuchs and many others through tens of thousands of entries. The […]

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