Puerto Rico’s future might be statehood, independence or more of the status quo, but change is unlikely to be won through voting alone.
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Sweets made of ice or snow have been with us for millennia, evolving slowly into the modern chilly treat.
The need to manage the water supply has always been a driver of human history, argues Steven Mithen.
Four historians consider whether the sudden collapse of the world economy caused by the Covid-19 pandemic will be followed by an equally dramatic resurgence.
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Mare Nostrum?
A Mediterranean within the Mediterranean? Exploring the Adriatic as a single historical space.
The First Live-Streaming
The théâtrophone premiered in Paris, at the International Exposition of Electricity, on 11 August 1881.
The 51st State?
Puerto Rico’s future might be statehood, independence or more of the status quo, but change is unlikely to be won through voting alone.
The Baltic Question
Imperial maps of the Baltic provinces continue to shape how Russia views them today.
Going, going…Goethe?
The question of reconstruction was a thorny issue in postwar Germany, where celebrations of the ‘glorious’ past took on a different hue.
On the Spot: Malgorzata Fidelis
‘Looking at my native country from outside opened completely new ways of thinking.’
Bad Dreams
Divining disaster at Aberfan and beyond, in subjects from nocebos to lost cosmonauts.
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