How Windrush changed the world, the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, a newly discovered witch-hunt, the emergence of Zionism, England’s medieval succession crisis, the Tunguska event, dog culls, lost cities and history written by winners.
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Zionism’s roots were born from persecution, but in realising its goals it has enacted its own inescapable oppression.
Witch-hunting happened when and where states were weak. What does a newly discovered witch-hunt in 1582 reveal about France and its ‘enlightened’ officials?
The Anglo-Portuguese alliance is the oldest of its kind. Concluded in June 1373, it has survived world wars, the rise and fall of empires and globalisation. How?
The Windrush generation witnessed the Caribbean colonies from which they had emigrated achieve independence. Despite being an ocean away, they were not passive observers.
Prison hulks were a flawed system, but that was not what finished them off.
It’s the most tired of historical clichés, but is it so for a reason? Who writes history? Four would-be winners debate.
In January 1848, in the Sicilian city of Palermo, the streets began to fill with crowds. From here, revolutionary sparks flew to almost all of Europe’s cities.
Following the death of Henry I, England was plunged into a civil war that reduced the country to a charred ruin. With the barons split between rival claimants, the people suffered.
Which person in history would I most like to have met? Mihri Hatun, a poet of Ottoman Bursa, who dared to state that a clever woman was worth 1,000 incompetent men.
First Tenochtitlán, then Cuzco, then Machu Picchu – why shouldn’t more cities paved with gold be discovered in South America?
The dog cull of 1760 divided London: were dogs man’s best friend, or plague-ridden pests?
Was it antimatter? Aliens? An atomic blast? On the 115th anniversary of the Tunguska event, the weird and wonderful theories as to the explosion’s cause show no sign of drying up. Why?
Born into poverty on 8 June 1783, Antonin Carême’s spectacular confectionary constructions made him patissier to royalty.
