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The enduring legacy of the sport’s pioneers.
The much-vaunted 'special relationship' between Britain and the United States obscures another history of rivalry and suspicion between the two allies.
Many of the ideas that shape football today were developed in the 1920s by a generation of Hungarian coaches.
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Birth of a Trailblazer
Hattie McDaniel, the first African American to win an Oscar, was born on 10 June 1893.
Rotting Among the Tsetse
The British government sought to hide the brutality of its conduct during the Kenya Emergency. Previously hidden files reveal an unpalatable truth.
The Abode of Madness
The long history of no man’s land, from lawlessness and desolation to hope and regrowth.
Vikings Attack Lindisfarne
The monks at the church of St Cuthbert were taken by surprise on 8 June 793.
On the Spot: Eleanor Robson
We ask 20 questions of leading historians on why their research matters, one book everyone should read and their views on historical drama …
More Heat and Light
The varied social, economic and institutional conditions that shaped science over more than two centuries.
Placing the Platypus
Defying categorisation since its discovery, was the platypus a mammal, a reptile, or something else?
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Black Death, Alfred the Great, Victorian Children’s Books, Dragomans, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, No Man’s Land.
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