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What did Britain and the Britons mean to the Anglo-Saxons, and what did it mean to be their ruler? 

A figurehead for progress before his political disgrace, in later life Lindberg became concerned about the impact of technology on the environment.

Burma – now Myanmar – became independent in 1948. Could Britain have done more for this unhappy country?

To what extent did Italian fascism represent Mussolini’s triumph of style over substance?

Why does England have a special fondness for the three kings – or magi – of the Christmas story?

From 1931 it looked as though Britain’s first Labour prime minister would be its last. Is it time to reappraise the political reputation of Ramsay MacDonald?

India cast off the monarchy in 1950, but the Nehru-Gandhi family have become republican royalty. How did one dynasty take centre stage in the world’s largest democracy?

How was rabies – a disease that still kills thousands worldwide every year – largely eradicated from Victorian Britain?

After he fell from power, Bismarck became a mythical hero figure of the right. The legend of the ‘Iron Chancellor’ was wielded by militarists, conservatives, and eventually, Adolf Hitler.

British traders in enslaved Africans found ways around the Slave Trade Act of 1807, while commerce flourished through the import of slave-grown cotton.