History Matters

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 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania 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.

Discovering the deep roots of the cheese plant.

Switzerland was a hub for China’s spy networks in the Cold War. 

A Ghanaian moment in Africa’s struggle to repatriate its art.