Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It may not be printed in red on your calendar, but April 26 is an important date in economic history. Fifty ...

Michael Duffy: In the past decade we've seen a new genre of books with titles such as Longitude and Cod which seek to explain a great deal by focusing on one apparently minor aspect of history. I have ...

Keith Tantlinger, who died on August 27 aged 92, developed the technology that launched containerised shipping – in the process redrawing the global economic map by transforming the way cargo is moved ...

As everyone knows, 2015 is a big year for anniversaries in Singapore. It's not just SG50 either, to mark Singapore's 50th year of independence. The Straits Times is 170 years old this year and the ...