Our World in Data traces how the way people in the United Kingdom light their homes has changed, from candles and oil lamps to gas and then electric light. Artificial light has made it possible to read, cook and study after dark and has made homes and streets safer. The article uses long-run data to show how each new source spread across the population and replaced the one before. It frames lighting as one of the everyday technologies that most shaped modern life.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.