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Popular Articles

‘You ask me, your majesty, if he is efficient. I reply, more efficient than before he fell in battle’. Illustration from Blood and Iron, Strand Magazine (October 1917). University of Michigan. Public Domain.
The Cyborg Soldier of the First World War
Presentation drawing of The Statue of Liberty Illuminating the World, Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, 1875. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.
A History of Liberalism
Portrait of Edmond Halley by Michael Dahl, 1736. The Royal Society.
The Worlds at the Earth’s Core
A parade in Salamanca celebrates the occupation of Gijón by Francoist troops, September 1937. Geopix/Alamy Stock Photo.
‘El Generalísimo’ by Giles Tremlett book review
Cyrus restores the vessels to the Temple of Jerusalem, by Gustave Doré for the Bible de Tours, 1843. Bridgeman Images.
The Great Destroyer: Cyrus, Babylon, and Jerusalem
Fernand Braudel illustration © Ben Jones/Heart Agency.
The Transformations of Fernand Braudel
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