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Was the antiquary a ‘bad-tempered crank and gullible collector’, or a pioneering historian?
The myths and realities of Oliver Cromwell’s formative years.
'The miracle at Philadelphia' was an amalgam of high principles and backroom wheeler-dealing, to provide safeguards for the smaller states.
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On the Spot: Barry Cunliffe
‘From an early age I couldn’t conceive of life without being an archaeologist.’
Armenia’s Warrior Queen
Why are medieval women largely absent from current discussions of Armenia’s past?
More than a Memory
Oradour-sur-Glane is now known as a memorial to a brutal massacre, but the lives of its inhabitants have been neglected.
By the Grace of God and No One Else
The myths and realities of Oliver Cromwell’s formative years.
One Giant Leap for Tortoise-Kind
The first of Earth’s creatures to hurtle into the Moon’s orbit were slow and sedentary residents of the Great Steppe.
How did 9/11 change the way the world sees the United States?
On the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, four experts consider the event’s global legacy.
The First Soviet in Ireland
Striking for better working conditions and equal pay, the attendants and patients of Monaghan asylum took over the hospital and hoisted a red flag.
Sophisticating the Past
Was the antiquary a ‘bad-tempered crank and gullible collector’, or a pioneering historian?
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Volume 71 Issue 9 September 2021
In the September issue:
The Battle of Salamis, The ‘Stans’ Turn 30, The House of Lords, Mary Wollstonecraft, Fakes in the Archives, Medieval Armenia, Vichy France and an Irish Soviet.
Plus: reviews, opinion, crossword and much more!
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