Illustrated picture books in Victorian England reached new aesthetic heights. But was it always for the benefit of the children?
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How did a Gulf backwater become a global powerbroker? Saudi Arabia: A Modern History by David Commins explores the uneasy alliance between oil, autocracy, and Wahhabism.
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Little is known about the origins of the Bayeux Tapestry, or its journey from Norman propaganda to a world-famous tourist attraction. Yet those moments in which its story does come into focus reveal a surprising history of cross-cultural exchange.
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Poor and small, Portugal was at the edge of late medieval Europe. But its seafarers created the age of ‘globalisation’, which continues to this day.
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Britain’s first book-of-the-month club – the Book Society – brought reading to a vast new audience. But not without some controversy.
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In Language and Social Relations in Early Modern England Hillary Taylor listens in the archives for the voices of ordinary people.
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How to reform a tyrant? Plato’s final advice to Dionysius the Younger was not well received.
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How to reform an ancient Greek tyrant? Plato’s final advice to Dionysius the Younger was not well received.
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Long overshadowed by Lindberg, The Big Hop: The First Non-Stop Flight Across the Atlantic and Into the Future by David Rooney returns Alcock and Brown to aviation's top flight.
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How was rabies – a disease that still kills thousands worldwide every year – eradicated from Victorian Britain?
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Illustrated picture books in Victorian England reached new aesthetic heights. But was it always for the benefit of the children?
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Dogged by rumours of stolen thrones and treachery, the Capetians were nonetheless one of the most successful dynasties of the medieval West.
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The French tragedy at sea, immortalised in Géricault’s masterpiece The Raft of the Medusa, was put to use in the service of British patriotism.
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Since the early 1960s, historians have shone a more positive light on the Battle of the Somme. But we must not forget the excesses and failures of that terrible campaign.
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In the early 20th century the prison population in England and Wales was in sharp decline, despite a rise in crime.
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By the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763 Britain had become a global power. However, the conflict’s colossal expense and the high-handed approach of British politicians led to the American Revolution.
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Numerous untruths have persisted about Gavrilo Princip, the man who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand. One of them was used by Austria-Hungary as grounds for its declaration of war against Serbia in 1914.
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Poets across the ages have sought help with their writing – but AI bears no comparison with the divine.
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Child-murderer, arch villain, failed monarch, ‘northern’. Have efforts to redeem Richard III succeeded or is he still one of history’s worst kings?
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The Strait of Hormuz became a fraught passage in the Tanker War between Iran and Iraq. Nevertheless, the oil continued to flow.
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The Writer’s Lot: Culture and Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France by Robert Darnton discovers a literary flowering in the shadow of the guillotine.
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What explains the Iranian state’s remarkable soft power in the West? The answer lies in Iran’s rich – and often romanticised – history.
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On 25 June 1922 Black activist Marcus Garvey found common cause with the Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Myanmar’s colonial legacy includes racial hierarchies and authoritarian government. In the new nation state, not everyone is welcome.
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Botany and Revolution: The Roots of Disorder
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