April 2025

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“Some say that the first Jews sailed here on King Solomon’s ships”: Kavita Puri on India's long Jewish history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The "outwardly respectable" man who had a body in his basement: how the Dr Crippen case shocked Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration by Hugh Cowling

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The conversation“If the culture wars ended, historians would be delighted”: the state of history in 2025. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Josephine Baker's famous banana skirt, which was introduced for Baker’s performance at Paris’s Folies Bergère – an act with which she soon became synonymous.

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Singer, dancer, Nazi-fighter: how Josephine Baker became a WW2 heroine. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Michael Wood: "Why Elon Musk should take a lesson from Confucius". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

RAF fliers accompany the bodies of two Nazi airmen being taken to be buried in Edinburgh

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In October 1939, two coffins were wheeled through Edinburgh draped in Nazi flags. But why?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudor angels of death: the 16th-century obsession with female killers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Amazing livesRobert Wedderburn: the ‘notorious firebrand’ who campaigned against slavery. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A coloured engraving of pirate captain Bartholomew Roberts, who enforced strict rules on his ship.

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Liquor, loot and death on the high seas: 5 things you (probably) didn't know about the history of pirates. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

by Anthony van Dyck

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"Tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy": was Charles I really that bad?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Richard III. (Photo by Getty Images/Alamy)

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The final mystery of Richard III: how 21st-century science cracked a 500-year-old cold case. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroJames Coomarasamy chooses Andrei Sakharov. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.