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The defining role played by oil in the city of Kirkuk, Iraq.
Wallada was among the greatest creative figures of 11th-century Córdoba.
Carthage and Rome go head to head.
The British Empire's 'sex problem'.
Britain in 1950 was different, in many ways, from Britain today
Imagining the diary of John Aubrey from the remnants of his life.
A personal reflection upon the religious roots of the Labour Party.
How to stay fashionable in the 18th century.
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The history of trade is one of merchants bending the rules.
How much are extreme actions the result of impersonal historical forces?
The problem with historical fiction is that it needs heroes. History doesn't.
Will England's most reviled king get the 'Thomas Cromwell' treatment?
A review of Victorian Obsessions, an exhibition at Leighton House Museum, London.
The epochal year’s defining events do not begin and end with the Battle of Waterloo.
Questions on the Risorgimento, Tutankhamun, Gran Colombia and the Western Roman Empire.
An insight into the workings of a typical 10th-century Anglo-Saxon classroom.
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