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Indigenous peoples in the West of the United States continued to be held in bondage long after the abolition of plantation slavery in the South.
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The multi-layered complexity of ‘Europe’s smallest successor state’ between 1918 and 1921.
Turn on, Tune in, Fight Back
How the humble radio station organised resistance, inspired the masses and countered powerful settler propaganda.
Revolting Romantics
The story of a young William Blake warning Thomas Paine of impending danger is one of the great myths of English Romanticism. But did it happen?
Is There Too Much Military History?
It is among the most commercial as well as maligned fields of history. Four distinguished scholars consider its value – and its future.
Sheppard’s Warning
A thief who had been dead for more than a century caused a moral panic in the theatres of Victorian London.
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Volume 71 Issue 4 April 2021
In the April issue:
Germany under Bismarck, East Africa’s Tourist War, Oliver Cromwell, Protector of the Jews, Decimalisation, ‘Gifted Children’, Ancient Egypt, the American Civil War, Wartime Widows.
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