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Burke to the Future: The Evolution of Conservatism

By Emily Jones

National Gallery: Bolivia

By Rhys Griffiths

Tablet of Zimri-Lim, concerning the foundation of an ice-house in Terqa, 1780 BC. Now in the Louvre.

The Greatest Library Before Alexandria

By Carly Silver

A Good Germany?

By Kirk Graham

Longman-History Today Awards 2017: The Winners

By History Today

Fire and Faith

By Samuel J. Martland

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Let Them Eat Meat

By Rachel Serkin

Christopher Who?

By Claudia Rogers

On the Spot: David Olusoga

By History Today

Something More than an Art

By Suzannah Lipscomb

The Music of Time: Angelic Choirs and Devilish Voices

By Alexander Lee

Yugoslavia’s Very Secret Service

By Chris Deliso

From The Archive

Coalition Governments: Hung Out to Dry?

By Ian Garrett

Shifting Attitudes on Homosexuality

By Andrew Roberts

An Election Entertainment, The Humours of an Election series, 1755

Hogarth’s Election Series

By Peter Quennell

Welcome

Reluctant Regicides
The Crusades: A Complete History
Francis Lagrange, A Row of Solitary Confinement Cells, c.1940s.
All the World's a Prison
‘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
Sebastian Munster's map, published in 1540, the first to show America as a continent.
So, Who Did Discover America?
Haile Selassie with his troops, October 1935.
Abyssinia out of the Shadows