Today’s featured articles
The sinister reach of East Germany’s Ministry for State Security did not end in 1989. According to the British press, the Stasi is still with us.
Fighting for the Union in the US Civil War, Welsh soldiers discovered that the cost of assimilation was the loss of their native language.
The small island of Bornholm gave Stalin a Danish foothold at the end of the Second World War. Why did he give it up?
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Terror and Oranges
Liberté, égalité, fraternité – oranges? What does Maximilien Robespierre’s fondness for citrus fruit reveal?
Does the Concept of the Third World have any Historical Value?
Long out of fashion, the term ‘Third World’ emerged amid the political polarisation of the Cold War. Now there is war in Europe again, and renewed talk of Non-Alignment. Does the ‘Global South’ exist?
The Wing of Friendship
Charles Dickens’ most enduring friendship was with his sister-in-law, who has been remembered as his housekeeper.
Ancient Outtakes
Depicting an ancient world in which Amazons fought alongside men, winds had distinct characters, and tortoises sang.
American Moppets
Americanised globalisation and the new world of Russian business in the 1990s.
The First Folio
The stage has a short memory, print a long one: 400 years since its first publication, Shakespeare’s First Folio is the reason we remember him.
A Life of Retirement
The Roman veterans village of Karanis in Egypt did not change the world. Its ordinariness is what makes it remarkable.
Asia and Africa Unite
In 1955, the Bandung Conference brought together post-colonial nations in the hope of forging a new solidarity. Could such disparate countries overcome their inherent differences?
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