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the Wife of Bath, the Ellesmere Manuscript of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, c.1410.

Are you Experienced?

Not a queen or a saint, witch or idealised lady-love, the Wife of Bath is a much-married working woman and an enthusiastic traveller.

Edda Mussolini presenting a banner at the Banco Commerciale Italiana ground at Edgware, 17 June 1934. Alamy.

The Favourite

How did Italy became enslaved by ‘a corrupt gang of warmongers’?

Wood Engraving 5 from the Compendium Maleficarum

Meet you There

Crossroads: meeting places or religious locations plagued by devils and demons?

Three Cherokee

Discovery Channels

Thousands of Indigenous Americans travelled to Europe – voluntarily or involuntarily – from as early as the 1490s.

Harold Wilson, photographed in his study at home in Westminster, in 1986. Allan Warren/Wiki Commons.

Main Man

The ‘pragmatic and principled’ Harold Wilson.

Yanktonai, Nakota, Sioux buckskin shirt for a chief’s war dress, collected at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 19th century. Courtesy Brooklyn Museum/Creative Commons.

Powerful Inversion

Understanding the Indigenous American past, from the earliest records of settlement up to the Ghost Dance revitalisation movement.

Some of the participants of the Cairo Conference, photographed in March 1921. Wiki Commons.

Hotel Days

Diplomatic negotiations at the 1921 Cairo Conference carved out a new geostrategic order.

Spectators on Nixon's motorcade route in China, February 1972. The sign reads ‘Long live the great, glorious and correct Communist Party of China!’ Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum/Wiki Commons.

Think About It

The seductions and delusions of mass media, consumerism, ‘group think’, advertising, opinion research and conspiracy theories.