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Young Turk: Enver Pasha, c.1911. © Ullstein Bild /Getty Images.

‘The Turkish Lawrence of Arabia’

By Benjamin C. Fortna

The Other Invasion

By Caitlin Ellis

Citizen Clem: Attlee during his time as prime minister, 1945-51. © Hulton/Getty Images.

Cold War Clem

By Daniel W.B. Lomas

Finland (an elk) being attacked by Russia (a pack of wolves), Wilhelm Schulz, Simplicissimus magazine, 1911. © Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris/Bridgeman Images.

National Gallery: Finland

By Rhys Griffiths

Monuments to the Past

By Jerome de Groot

Tourist Trinkets: The Medieval Pilgrim Badge

By Amy Jeffs

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On the Spot: Andrew Roberts

By History Today

It’s not you, it’s me: The Lover’s Tiff, Paolo Mei, 1872. © Bridgeman Image

A Kinder, Gentler History

By Suzannah Lipscomb

The shellac recording of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band’s ‘Livery Stable Blues’, 1917. Granger/Alamy

The Music of Time No 4: Listening for the Change

By Alexander Lee

Decisive year: a Soviet propaganda poster, c.1917. © Heritage Images/akg-images.

1917: The fragility of Power

By Paul Lay

Missionaries and Islanders, Dobu, 1899.

The Spears of Peace

By Deb Lee-Talbot

The Man in Carriage No. 2013

By Catherine Boylan

From The Archive

May Days And After

By Chris Wrigley

Indians in Britain during the First World War

By Suzanne Bardgett

Three versions of the flag of the Confederate States of America and the Confederate Battle Flag are shown on this printed poster from 1896. Standing at the center are Stonewall Jackson, P. G. T. Beauregard, and Robert E. Lee,

The Troubled Resurgence of the Confederate Flag

By Chris Springer

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German soldiers talk to a Muslim woman in Mostar, Herzegovina, 1944.
Muslims in Hitler's War
Reluctant Regicides
Alexander fighting king Darius III of Persia, Alexander Mosaic, Naples National Archaeological Museum.
Who Killed Alexander the Great?
Asia and the Old World Order
Brutal Saviours of the Black Patch
‘The Murder of Richard Hunne’ in a woodcut from a 16th-century edition of John Foxe’s Acts and Monuments.
Death at St Paul's