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David Williamson explains why events in Berlin twice threatened to unleash a third world war.

Geoffrey Roberts assesses Stalin’s changing reputation, 50 years after his death.

Robert Carr draws uncomfortable parallels between Christianity and Nazism.

Jon Cook identifies the mix of factors that helps explain the Florentine Renaissance.

Retha Warnicke examines the tumultuous career of Mary, Queen of Scots, before her long incarceration by her cousin Elizabeth I of England.

Adrian Mourby shows that the nightmare scenario can be both dire warning and escapist fantasy.

David Lowenthal explores natural history enthusiasms among Victorian Britons and Americans, and finds an explanation for their differing approaches to conservation.

Charlotte Crow glimpses the British Museum’s new exhibition of its own original collections in the great King’s Library.

In the final article in our series on Britain and Russia, Stuart Thompstone visits the long-lasting community of Britons in the Russian capital.