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Art of history: Asa Briggs at the National Portrait Gallery in 1999.

Asa Briggs, 1921-2016

Paul Lay remembers the social historian and History Today contributor, who died this week.

Hippopotamus amphibius, an illustration from William Jardine’s The Naturalist’s Library, 1833-43.
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Hippos of the Thames

The discovery in Victorian London of the remains of ancient animals – and a fascination with their modern descendants – helped to transform people’s ideas of the deep past, as Chris Manias reveals.

‘Sights of Horrors, which we can never forget’: the Wittenberg Platz Holocaust Memorial, Berlin.

Twentieth Century Fox

Buoyed by being on the right side of history in the Second World War, Britain tends to be neglectful of its own 20th-century excesses.

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Roger Casement, the Irish Volunteer

The trial for treason and execution of Roger Casement – humanitarian, homosexual and Irish Nationalist – which took place, in the wake of the Easter Rising of 1916, continues to resonate, as Andrew Lycett explains.

Soul survivors: Christ with the Virgin and St John in Langford

After the Norman Conquest

Eleanor Parker is inspired by a visit to a village church in Oxfordshire that bears witness to one of the most turbulent and transformative periods in English history.