America’s ‘Lawrence of Arabia’
Wendell Phillips is not remembered fondly in Yemen.
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Sanitising the Suffragettes
Why is it so easy to forget an unsavoury aspect of Britain’s recent past?
Sacred Songs for the Dead
Women had few powers in Ancient Greece – except in death.
German East Africa after the First World War
The peoples of Germany's African colonies recovered from the conflict against all the odds.
Roman Women and the Oppian Law
‘We have not kept our women individually under control, we now dread them collectively’, said Cato the Elder, as Rome’s women took to the streets to protest the unfair lex Oppia.
Lothar's Loveless Marriage
The first royal divorce scandal in European history pioneered a new kind of crisis.
The Air of Freedom
Before the British Empire and the Atlantic slave trade, Africans lived freely in Tudor England.
All’s Fair in Blood and War
The pain of war had at least one positive side-effect: medical advances in haematology.
Cnut’s Rivals
A new old take on the Danish succession, complete with tales of derring do.
Lubaina Himid: Naming the Un-Named
Turner Prize winner Lubaina Himid’s artworks fill in the gaps that history leaves behind.