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Ethiopia’s current crisis is rooted in a long history of regional and ethnic defiance towards the political centre. 

The bodies of Jan Bockelson, and two other leaders of the Anabaptist sect, were hung outside the church of St Lambert on 22 January 1536.

In the wake of the failure of the Spanish Armada, England sought retaliation by launching an invasion of its own. But how to finance such a venture?

The ruined temples of Cambodia’s medieval empire became symbols of a people who had forgotten their history. In reality, they demonstrate an inherent continuity. 

A society portraitist who emigrated to Britain from Hungary found himself embroiled in a drama of divided loyalties during the First World War. 

A study of war through the ages.

A warning is ignored and a city falls in El Greco’s lurid depiction.

The consequences of the German aristocracy’s Faustian pact.

Belarusian memory of the Second World War once helped legitimise the Lukashenka regime. Now it is undermining it.