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For many Americans, jazz was the music of demons, devils and things that go bump in the night.
What do the tyrants of the 20th century have in common? Terror, confusion and quasi-religious followings.
As a frontline soldier in the First World War, the German artist Otto Dix fell under the spell of the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche and his assault on Christian morality.
Hong Kong’s current extradition law crisis is not the first that the territory has faced.
Medieval French monarchs used – and abused – the charismatic power of religious women.
For Louis, the conversion of Muslims to Christianity, ideally by peaceful means, was important.
This podcast looks at how Isidore Salmon, the force behind J Lyons & Co., threatened to withdraw advertising from the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror in 1934.
In our latest podcast, Dan Jones discusses the year 1147, when the Second Crusade was launched.
The poet’s conquest of the Adriatic city of Fiume in 1919 was flamboyant, comedic and never likely to last – but it ushered in a new era of showman politics across Europe.