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The role of women in the Ku Klux Klan is often neglected, but they were key players at all levels.

Assessing Margaret Thatcher’s premiership: a radical decade and a divisive legacy. 

Despite the religious rupture caused by the Reformation, fear of the Apocalypse remained common to both sides of western Christendom. But older, classical ideas of an eternal return were at work, too.

Events in the Baltic States at the end of the First World War had serious long-term consequences.

‘See they don’t let us down when we come back this time ’, called the British soldiers embarking for the D-Day invasion.

What was life like for medieval prostitutes? A case in the German town of Nördlingen reveals a hellish world of exploitation and violence.

Just two years after victory in the Second World War, the divisions between the Soviet Union and the Western powers became unbridgeable. The Cold War had begun.

The story of Richard III’s lieutenants, William Catesby, Sir Richard Ratcliffe and Francis, Viscount Lovell, is one of intrigue, death and a mysterious disappearance.

Against the odds, the Third Anglo-Afghan War led to Afghanistan’s independence from the British Empire.