Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

YOU would never have heard of Edward Muggeridge if he hadn’t left sleepy Kingston upon Thames and headed for California in the 1850s. There he reinvented himself as Eadweard Muybridge, and went on to ...

Edward Muggeridge, born in Kingston-upon-Thames in 1830, his father a grain and coal merchant, his mother from a family of barge workers who transported these commodities, seems not to have been a ...