In 1857 Everard Digby published the first scientific treatise on swimming - and one of the first on any modern sport. Nicholas Orme rehabilitates Digby as a pio

A deep dive into the history of aquatics that exposes centuries-old tensions of race, gender, and power at the root of many contemporary swimming controversies.

Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, d

Sometime around 1446 A.D., Cardinal Prospero Colonna commissioned engineer Battista Alberti to raise two immense Roman vessels from the bottom of the lago di Ne

As Enlightenment notions of predictability, progress and the sense that humans could control and shape their environments informed European thought, catastrophe