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Class interest and ostentatious generosity are the hallmarks of elite charity. So, too, is a fixation with posterity. 

The First Crusade unleashed shockwaves felt across all of Christendom. New chapters to a story started in 1099 are still being written.

In 17th-century Tuscany and Malta some women were able to hold their abusers, members of the clergy, to account.

The Ukrainian-Polish border is a symbol of both international solidarity and the continuing threat that xenophobia poses to the European project.

Three generations of the cursed House of Dudley stained the executioner’s block in 16th-century England. Were its members murderous villains working to overthrow the Tudor crown, or shrewd political agents struggling to survive? 

In the 1930s several prominent Black intellectuals visited Shanghai, bringing politics, culture and anti-colonial fervour with them. 

The death and mutilation of the chief of the Xhosa in 1835 at the hands of the British was a ‘barbarous’ deed, concealed by the perpetrators in a web of lies. 

History books by men are bought in far greater quantities than those by women. Why?

The curation, control and censorship of the life of the elusive St Ambrose.

People with learning or physical disabilities occasionally had unique opportunities in Tudor society.