Articles on the history of the Large Hadron Collider

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/sep/10-an-essential-concise-history-of-the-lhc

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) - the next BIG thing in science. This article is a collection of other articles focusing on the history of the LHC and some of the issues that had to be resolved before it could operate.