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Switzerland’s Hoteliers

At the turn of the 20th century, Switzerland embraced the Grand Hotel. The First World War brought one golden age of hotels to an end, ushering in a new, more uncertain one.

Seán Williams
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Policing the Windrush Generation

Police brutality and stop-and-search are yet another legacy of Empire.

Sam Collings-Wells
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The End of British Communism

It was not the Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the ‘Party line’, which brought an end to the era of ‘fellow travellers’, 80 years ago.

Oscar Clarke
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The Cows Behind the Cowboy

The human cost and conflict behind ‘beef for everyone’.

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Mao Zedong (second from left) meeting farm workers to congratulate them on their yield, 9 February 1958 © Hulton Getty Images.

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Portrait of the Musgrave Morris boys, with John Armine Morris (b.1813), later Sir John Morris, 3rd Baronet of Clasemont on the left and George Byng Morris (b.1816) on the right, c.1830 (detail) © Bridgeman Images.

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Grand Hotel Dolder, Zurich, Switzerland, c.1900.

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Switzerland’s Nation of Hoteliers

At the turn of the 20th century, Switzerland embraced the Grand Hotel. The First World War brought one golden age of hotels to an end, ushering in a new, more uncertain one.

London police search a black youth on Talbot Road, Notting Hill, during the race riots, 3 September 1958 © Getty Images.

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Policing the Windrush Generation

Police brutality and stop-and-search are yet another legacy of Empire.

Japanese travel poster for the Great Wall of China,1937 © Bridgeman Images.

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The Unravelling of Sino-Japanese Relations

The story of China and Japan, and the periodic efforts to find a modus vivendi.

A meeting of the British Communist Party, Earls Court, London, 5 August 1939 © Hulton Getty Images.

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The End of British Communism

It was not the Nazi-Soviet Pact, but the ‘Party line’, which brought an end to the era of ‘fellow travellers’, 80 years ago.

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The Cows Behind the Cowboy

The human cost and conflict behind ‘beef for everyone’.

A Man seated reading at a Table in a Lofty Room, Follower of Rembrandt, c.1628-30.

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Was Thomas Turner Lonely?

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