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Tim Black seeks to understand the origins of antisemitism, looking beyond the Holocaust to the ancient Middle East and medieval Europe.

Edward Falshaw advises how our study of this important period can match the examiners’ agenda.

Angela McShane Jones asks what depictions in broadsides of Mary II with her breasts exposed, tell us about 17th-century popular attitudes to royalty.

Federico Guillermo Lorenz shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

Michael Lynch takes a fresh look at the key reform of 19th-century Russia – the end of Serfdom.

Steve Smith shows that those who control the present are sometimes able to control interpretations of the past.

Anthony Cross describes the introduction of British games to Russia.

David Johnson describes the infamous Marriage Act of 1753, which made marriage a tightly-regulated institution governed by church and state.

Bernard Porter points out similarities and contrasts between terrorism then and now.