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

Florence’s Mud Angels

By Richard Ivan Jobs

Burke to the Future: The Evolution of Conservatism

By Emily Jones

National Gallery: Bolivia

By Rhys Griffiths

Win tickets to 'Death in the ice: the shocking story of Franklin’s final expedition'

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A Good Germany?

By Kirk Graham

Longman-History Today Awards 2017: The Winners

By History Today

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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

1858 Punch cartoon 'Father Thames introducing his offspring to the Fair City of London' - an acid comment on contemporary views that foul surroundings breed foul diseases.

Under the Weather: Climate and Disease, 1700-1900

By Ronald Rees

Shifting Attitudes on Homosexuality

By Andrew Roberts

Welcome

Hitler's Turncoat Tutor
Barbaric Beauty
The Crusades: A Complete History
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
‘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
German soldiers talk to a Muslim woman in Mostar, Herzegovina, 1944.
Muslims in Hitler's War