History Matters

During the Holocaust, one Italian hospital’s invented disease helped save Jews and anti-fascists from the occupying Nazis.

Founded to safeguard the world’s heritage, UNESCO’s status often threatens what it seeks to protect.

Good intentions, misinformation and fear contributed to haemophiliacs becoming the hidden victims of HIV in Ireland.

Short, angry missives pinged across the world – Russian propagandists used postcards to get their message across.

Were US-Cuban relations soured for the want of ten dollars?

The buildings that came out of Portugal’s New State were described as an ‘architectural lie’.

Venetian officials sought to stem a ‘plague’ of sodomy by promoting the heterosexual sex trade.

Though denied credit Rosalind Franklin’s work on the molecular structure of DNA was pivotal to Watson and Crick’s discovery of the double helix.

Germany is the country most closely associated with militarism, but Britain has had its militarist moments, too.