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A selection of our favourite articles from the past year.

It took a long while for Rudolph and the other reindeer to team up with Santa Claus. But once they did, there was no stopping them.

Leaked photographs of colonial atrocities during the Malayan ‘Emergency’ shocked postwar Britain.

We should be clear about which histories are neglected and which are not.

Recent studies show the benefits and limitations of giving voice to the thoughts of our predecessors. 

Four historians consider the consequences of the ‘Day of Infamy’ on 7 December 1941, and whether it was the ultimate reason for Germany, Italy and Japan’s defeat.

The author of the quaint, but much-loved Ladybird books was also a radical playwright.

The distant past is not often illustrated with plentiful descriptions of everyday life. Instead, the picture has to be put together from different sources, piece by piece, like a jigsaw. But there are often still gaps, which can be filled with historically informed creativity.