Today’s featured articles
In Ukraine, it’s not just the future which is at stake. It’s the past, too.
Recently discovered papyri give unprecedented insight into the lives of the workers building the Great Pyramid of Giza.
We may know it when we see it, but corruption is not a fixed concept. Mark Knights explains how 300 years of scandal have forged perceptions of what is – and what is not – corrupt.
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Barbados and the End of Monarchy
Barbados’ decision to remove Queen Elizabeth II as head of state was inevitable. Why did it take so long?
The Death of an Emperor
With the US riven by civil war, Napoleon III seized the opportunity to install an emperor in Mexico. The new regime soon fell apart in a catastrophic manner.
Learning Japanese
Official secrecy and institutional rivalry obscured the achievements of two crash programmes hastily launched to teach Japanese during the Second World War.
Fake Views
The 19th-century craze for spiritualism ‘resurrected’ the dead through manipulated photography, a practice that boomed with the trauma caused by war – though it was not without its sceptics.
What Chips did Next
A ringside seat to British domestic politics, from Chamberlain’s meeting with Hitler in October 1938 to the fall of Mussolini in July 1943.
The Young Crusaders
Inspired by the fashion for Boy Scout groups, Lord Beaverbrook started his own youth movement in support of his pro-Empire campaign.
Before the Taliban
Reporting from the frontlines of the mujahideen war against the Soviet Union.
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