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‘History doesn’t teach any lessons – only historians do.’

A Greek hero sees off the challenge of temptation with the help of his ship’s crew.

Whatever Henry II may have wished, we will never be rid of Thomas Becket.

A compendious history of political murder.

Those who control the media control the state. Lenin knew this, but by 1991 his Soviet successors had forgotten, to their ultimate cost.

The Norse voyages to Greenland and Canada as part of a bigger story.

Franco Rosso’s film Babylon presented the lives of Black Londoners in a way few had done before.

The aviator’s plane disappeared on a circumnavigation of the world on 2 July 1937.

The fabric of the modern world.

Four historians consider whether the continent that gave the world the nation state still remains in its thrall.