By shooting an apple off his son’s head, William Tell inspired both the Swiss people to fight for independence and a ...
The question of who owns Greenland rings throughout history, arguably beginning in the Viking Age. But since the Second World ...
Following the death of the former US president in December, historian Mark White recalls the life and work of a leader whose ...
Despite only housing prisoners for a matter of months, a small island on the Ob River in Siberia was such a violent and ...
When it comes to popes, the current split between men and women is 266 to zero. But, as Jonny Wilkes explores, that hasn’t ...
Poisoned sweets. Criminal misdeeds. And a sex scandal involving… the prime-minister.
The SAS changed the way that the Allies fought the Second World War. A group of motley misfits whose origins lay in a spy’s propaganda exercise, these bearded ruffians started as joke and yet ...
It is uncommon to see West African histories in mainstream media, and even more unlikely to come across West African histories from pre-colonial times. This lack of resources makes it all too easy to ...
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