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Josephine Baker’s induction into the Pantheon is both a cause for celebration and a prompt to explore France’s progressive values.

Two Hindu gods discover an abandoned child while following the wind’s path.

Travelling through time with Christine de Pizan.

Early modern parish libraries, frequently established for the benefit of the general public, were often deliberately inaccessible.

The introduction of chocolate to the Catholic world caused a dilemma: could it be eaten? Should it be given up for Lent?

The railway revolutionised Victorian Britain, but were its trains on the right track? It was difficult to gauge.

How did those living in an age of enlightenment see themselves?

A blend of fatalism and hope in 20th century Wales.

Announced on 12 March 1947 with the intention of containing Soviet expansion, the Truman Doctrine is sometimes seen as the first declaration of the Cold War. Four experts ask whether the conflict’s legacy is a defining one.

Often cast as subversive and seditious, despite the interventions of monarchs and governments the guilds of the Middle Ages have endured.