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Iraq faces an ongoing crisis of sovereignty, 90 years after independence.

Britain’s privatised water companies are under attack, but private ownership of a vital public service has a long history of controversy.

Notes in the margins of early modern books can be very revealing about their readers’ lives and interests.

Is King Lear the Shakespearean tragedy for a world of capitalism and catastrophe?

As America built a vision of its past Oliver Cromwell became both angel and demon.

Bayard Rustin, African American civil rights leader, was also a pacifist, a socialist and a gay rights activist.

Imperial maps of the Baltic provinces continue to shape how Russia views them today.

A century of struggle over the meaning of ‘Jerusalem’.

Brazil’s cars have run on ‘green fuel’ for a century, but this has not come without costs.

When Blackshirts took over an Italian ship and headed for Cardiff, trade unions held a boycott in what was the first British protest against fascism.