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Ernest Hemingway’s love of bullfighting bordered on obsession. Did he see his own insecurities reflected in the ring?
Brazil’s first newspaper was published from London by an exiled Freemason on first-name terms with British royalty. Who was Hipólito da Costa and what was his news?
In 1825 Java’s old order rose up against encroaching European colonialism. What – and who – were the Java War’s rebels fighting for?
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Making Crusading Great Again?
Would St Augustine have considered the US attack on Iran a just war? The pope and the vice president are split on the matter.
The Free Brazilian Press
Brazil’s first newspaper was published from London by an exiled Freemason on first-name terms with British royalty. Who was Hipólito da Costa and what was his news?
‘Margaret Bondfield’ by Nan Sloane review
Margaret Bondfield: The Life and Times of Britain’s First Female Cabinet Minister by Nan Sloane illuminates an overlooked trailblazer of the Labour movement.
1936’s Promise of Peace: Roosevelt on Campaign
In August 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt gave a boldly pacifist campaign speech, promising no American would have to go to war. It had seemed a realistic promise.
The British Bombs Down Under
The legacy of a decade of British weapons testing in its vast central deserts has forced Australia into an uncomfortable reckoning with its nuclear past.
Immoral Panic: Antisemitism in Georgian England
In 1753 the journey of a minor Jewish naturalisation Act through Parliament prompted an outsized furore.
Beginning of the Spanish Civil War
On 17 July 1936 colonial troops rose against the republican government in Madrid. The Spanish Civil War had started.
‘The China Question’ by Ho-fung Hung review
In The China Question: Eight Centuries of Fantasy and Fear Ho-fung Hung watches the West swing from Sinophilia to Sinophobia and back again.
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