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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

Unstuck from the mud: volunteers rescue artworks in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, 1966. © Getty Images.

Florence’s Mud Angels

By Richard Ivan Jobs

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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

Welcome

Haile Selassie with his troops, October 1935.
Abyssinia out of the Shadows
Brutal Saviours of the Black Patch
The Crusades: A Complete History
The Rise of the Teutonic Knights
Steatite seal from the Indus valley, c.2500 BC. The script is still undeciphered.
The Greatest Civilisation Ever Forgotten?
German soldiers talk to a Muslim woman in Mostar, Herzegovina, 1944.
Muslims in Hitler's War