‘A Baptism of Blood’
Fighting for the Union in the US Civil War, Welsh soldiers discovered that the cost of assimilation was the loss of their native language.
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Renaissance Wonder Women
To Renaissance audiences, the mythical Amazons were exotic, mysterious and revealed hidden truths about their own society.
The ‘Jena Set’
The quiet German town that formed the backdrop for the first German Romantic movement.
For the Love of Manuscripts
Are people who lived in very different times and places united in their shared love of manuscripts?
Sign of the Times
Speech, rather than hearing, has been at the heart of the long history of deaf exclusion.
In Bed with the Tudors
Did Tudor beds have footboards? The conundrum illustrates the challenges of early modern history.
The Army that Walked on Water
For the Swedish king Charles X Gustav, the freezing winter of 1658 provided a unique opportunity: to march across the ice and create a Scandinavian superkingdom.
For God (and us)
The histories of sixteen great cathedrals from Hagia Sophia to Santa Maria del Fiore.
The Ancient Greek Computer in the Aegean
The Antikythera Mechanism is ingenious, intricate and highly sophisticated. But what is it?