Grim Outlook
The ‘discovery’ of America, capitalism, the Reformation and the Sunni-Shia divide all owe something to Selim the Grim.
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Royal Disappointment
Stripping Edward the Confessor of his independence.
Doctor Who?
A search for the first doctor.
Hard Labour
A fresh account of Ernest Bevin, who operated at the summit of British public life for almost three decades.
Calling Home
What does a late 19th century fashionable London house name have in common with a medieval open-field system?
Poking Fun
An archive of handmade erotic objects made over two centuries of American history tells a story of hidden desire that has often been overlooked.
Castro’s Honeymoon
Holding court to the world in a hotel in Harlem.
The Only Ones Left
Children’s accounts of surviving the Holocaust.
Wishful Thinking
The tolerant and worryingly modern Vikings.
Buying Nazism
In the early years of Nazi rule, the vagueness of much Nazi ideology enabled many Germans to see in Nazism what they wanted to see.