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John MacKenzie suggests that imperial rule and the possession of empire were an essential component of British identity, life and culture for over 200 years from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries.

The Magyars of Hungary were defeated by an army led by Otto I, on August 10th, 955.

A late-Roman coin unearthed in an Oxfordshire field and on show in the Ashmolean Museum leads Llewelyn Morgan to ponder the misleading messages on the faces of coins.

Paul Doolan visits a new museum in Geneva that presents the history of Reformed Christianity and Calvinism as a key and positive factor in European history.

George Orwell’s ‘fairy story’ on the USSR was politically inconvenient in 1945. Opinions on Animal Farm were soon revised, but its targets – and its author – are easily misunderstood.

Martin Evans mourns the loss of Douglas Johnson, doyen of French political history in Britain.

Mark Roodhouse finds a dark secret in one of the champions of the 1945 Labour landslide.

Daniel Snowman meets the historian of Poland, Europe and ‘The Isles’.

Claire Warrior, of the National Maritime Museum, previews the themes of the exhibition opening on July 7th.

The journey that led N.A.M. Rodger from a schoolboy passion for warships to his becoming the historian of the British Navy took some unexpected turns. He regrets none of them.