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Into battle: an Amazon attacks a Greek warrior, French, c.1808

A Case of Double Standards

By Suzannah Lipscomb

Obituary: Jonathan Riley-Smith

By Jonathan Phillips

Map of the transatlantic cable

Putting a girdle ‘round the globe

By Frank Trentmann

A Century of Conquest

By History Today

'Erebus' and the 'Terror' in New Zealand, August 1841, by John Wilson Carmichael

On the Trail of the Terror

By Shane McCorristine

Reykjavik dockyard, early 20th century

Remembering the Forgotten

By Jerome de Groot

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Effigy of Robert Curthose in Gloucester Cathedral.

Chronicles of the Conquered

By Courtnay Konshuh and Ryan Lavelle

Sappho and her Brothers

By David Gribble

The Map: Tenochtitlan, 1524

By Kate Wiles

Penn's Plan for a United Europe

By Peter Schröder

Valiant Losers

By Katherine Weikert

Redeemed: William the Conqueror riding with his soldiers, English, c.14th century.

William the Conqueror Reassessed

By Marc Morris

From The Archive

Campaigners at a polling station in Berlin

Who Voted for the Nazis?

By Dick Geary

Bridge over the Saale between Hirschberg, Thuringia and Rudolphstein, Upper Franconia

The Autobahn Myth

By Uwe Oster

Battle of Poitiers (miniature of Froissart)

Poitiers: High Point of the Hundred Years’ War

By Ian Mortimer

Welcome

Napoleon the Kingmaker
British ammunition wagons move up to the front alongside the Ypres-Menin road, September 1917. Getty Images/Popperfoto
The Man Who Predicted the Great War
The Presidential Mansion ruins after the conflagration of August 24, 1814. Watercolor by George Munger, displayed at the White House
Washington is Burning
Inspired by the Black Death, The Dance of Death or Danse Macabre, an allegory on the universality of death, is a common painting motif in the late medieval period.
The Black Death: The Greatest Catastrophe Ever
The Holy Roman Empire
The baptism of Christ depicted in 'The Chronology of Ancient Nations' by Al-Biruni, Islamic school, 14th century.
Islam's Origins: Where Mystery Meets History