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  • Giuliano de' Medici (left) and Lorenzo de' Medici. Portraits by Botticelli and an unknown artist
    The Medici Brothers 1469-78
  • Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, then governor of Massachusetts, 1920. Library of Congress. Public Domain.
    ‘Silent Cal’: Reassessing Calvin Coolidge
  • Benito Mussolini at a ceremony for the Italian Academy of Physical Education in Rome, 1940. Narodowe Archiwum Cyfrowe. Public Domain.
    Benito Mussolini’s Theatre of Fascism
  • A commemorative album of photographs from Gandhi’s Salt March, c. 1930. British Library. Public Domain.
    Gandhi, Non-Violence and Indian Independence

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‘View of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye’, 18th-century engraving. Rijksmuseum. Public Domain.
God’s Machines: Descartes and Nature
Charles V of France and Emperor Charles IV feast while  the Siege of Jerusalem  is re-enacted, from the Grandes Chroniques  de France, c.1380.
The Long Shadow of the First Crusade
Portrait of Anne of Cleves, by Hans Holbein the Younger, 1539. The Victoria & Albert Museum.
Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
The body of Richard III, King of England, found on the battlefield of Bosworth, 1485, by Charles Rochussen, 1866. Rijksmuseum.
Was Richard III a Bad King?
Indian Painter, by Eanger Irving Couse, late 19th or early 20th century. Minneapolis Institute of Art. Public Domain.
On the Spot: Kathleen DuVal
Ruined Maya gateway at Labná in the Yucatan peninsula, by Frederick Catherwood, 1844. ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912.
Secret World of the Maya
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