James Nye has the assistant chaplain at school to thank for his career. For any boys not interested in rugby at Ardingly College in West Sussex in the 1970s, Reverend Waters offered lessons in basic ...

A visitor to the Clockmakers' Museum in the Guildhall Library in the City of London could be forgiven for fixating on the oldest surviving self-winding watch, formerly carried by Czar Nicholas I, or ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Founded in 1631, the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers is the oldest surviving horological institute in the ...

Horologists rejoice: we've got more details about the fate of London's Clockmakers' Museum collection. After being closed since 2014, the Clockmakers' Museum collection, the oldest clock and watch ...

Next month, May 3, economist Deirdre McCloskey will speak at AEI about her new book “Bourgeois Equality” (on sale April 21). It’s the final volume of a trilogy — also “Bourgeois Dignity” and ...