This feature seeks to take a person, event or period and abridge, or focus on, an important event or detail that can get lost in the big picture. Think Horrible Histories for grownups (without the songs).

Title / topic	Edition	Year
American Policy: theory and practice over 200 years	157	2023
The medieval origins of university	156	2023
London’s women statues	155	2022
Balmoral	154	2022
Salt mines in Eastern Europe	153	2022
Libraries	152	2022
The City of Alexandria	151	2021
Language and the African continent	150	2021
The census	149	2021
The Berlin Conference 1884–1885	148	2021
POTUS: President of the United States	147	2020
The Acropolis	146	2020
Migration – the potato	145	2020
Operation Black Buck	144	2020
Publishing	143	2020