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Monuments to the Past

By Jerome de Groot

Tourist Trinkets: The Medieval Pilgrim Badge

By Amy Jeffs

The Myth of Symmetry and Balance

By Avan Judd Stallard

Passchendaele: What’s in a name?

By Gary Sheffield

A new Alexander: The Death of Germanicus, by Nicolas Poussin, 1626/38. © akg-images

Tacitus’ Perfect Man

By Emma Southon

Censoring Indian History

By Audrey Truschke

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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

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

Coalition Governments: Hung Out to Dry?

By Ian Garrett

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German soldiers talk to a Muslim woman in Mostar, Herzegovina, 1944.
Muslims in Hitler's War
Alexander fighting king Darius III of Persia, Alexander Mosaic, Naples National Archaeological Museum.
Who Killed Alexander the Great?
Brutal Saviours of the Black Patch
Asia and the Old World Order
Haile Selassie with his troops, October 1935.
Abyssinia out of the Shadows
The arrest of Robespierre on the night of 9-10 Thermidor, Year Two by Jean-Joseph Tessaert. Musée Carnavalet / Bridgeman Images
The French Revolution's Angel of Death