Today’s featured articles
In the first of a new series, we ask historians one of the burning questions of the day.
Just two years after victory in the most murderous war in history, the divisions between the Soviet Union and the Western powers became unbridgeable.
The British Empire’s playbook of force, a new study on Mary Seacole, and a new understanding of the Normans: a round up of recently published work.
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A Haitian Queen in Georgian Britain
Forced into exile following the death of Haiti’s first and only king, Queen Marie-Louise and her daughters sought refuge from the turbulent events that engulfed their homeland.
The War in Words
What did British officers think of the American Civil War as it was happening?
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The British Empire’s playbook of force, a new study on Mary Seacole, and a new understanding of the Normans: a round up of recently published work.
All That Is Not Good
Writing in troubled times, Julian of Norwich realised that consolation only has meaning if it takes pain seriously.
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The Black Legend of the House of Dudley, The Murder of Hintsa, Chinese and Black Intellectuals in 1930s Shanghai, The First Crusade, Togas.
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