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Holy Women and Royal Power in France

Medieval French monarchs used – and abused – the charismatic power of religious women.

Sean L. Field
Out of the Margins

The Cultured Women of Essex

We should take more notice of the work of those once despised and disregarded.

Eleanor Parker
Review

County Lines

A new book explores Essex beyond the stereotypes.

Jonathan Meades
Review

The Adventures of Number 45

The story of a Gutenberg Bible, from 15th century Mainz to Keio University, Tokyo.

Diane Scott

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Hasankeyf - A City in Peril

Turkish archaeologists work against the clock to discover the secrets of ancient Hasankeyf before it is flooded by the waters of the proposed Ilisu dam.

Penny Young

A ship caught in a storm; three people in a lifeboat in the foreground. Aquatint, ca. 1850. Wellcome Collection.

Feature

Saving Life at Sea

‘Valour and virtue have not perished in the British race’, said Winston Churchill, describing the long record of the national life-boat service.

Patrick Howarth

Occupying British troops march past the Nusretiye mosque in Istanbul in 1920, as the Ottoman Empire collapses.

Miscellanies

Ottoman Empire 2.0?

Across the Balkans, relics of Ottoman glory and decline, such as mosques, bridges and hamams, exist in various states of disrepair. Can they be brought back to life?

Alev Scott

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August 1967: Police clash with protestors at the Hong Kong tram workers strike. Wiki Commons.

Behind the Times

Leaving Hong Kong

Hong Kong’s current extradition law crisis is not the first that the territory has faced.

Nativity, from the Psalter of Ingeborg of Denmark, c.1210 © Bridgeman Images

Feature

Holy Women and the Rise of Royal Power in France

Medieval French monarchs used – and abused – the charismatic power of religious women.

Spreading the word: Louis carrying the Sceptre and Hand of Justice from Registre des Ordonnances de l’Hôtel du Roi, c.1320

Review

Louis the Missionary

For Louis, the conversion of Muslims to Christianity, ideally by peaceful means, was important.

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Travels Through Time: The Blackshirts vs. Lyons

This podcast looks at how Isidore Salmon, the force behind J Lyons & Co., threatened to withdraw advertising from the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror in 1934.

Siege of Damascus during the Second Crusade, 1148. British Library.

Podcast

Travels Through Time: The Crusades

In our latest podcast, Dan Jones discusses the year 1147, when the Second Crusade was launched.

Waltham Abbey, Essex, c.1840, Peter De Wint. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Review

County Lines

Exploring Essex beyond the stereotypes.

Gabriele D'Annunzio and supporters in Fiume. 1919.

Miscellanies

Gabriele D’Annunzio’s Fiume Escapade

The poet’s conquest of the Adriatic city of Fiume in 1919 was flamboyant, comedic and never likely to last – but it ushered in a new era of showman politics across Europe.