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Published: June 24, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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Historian Beth Lew-Williams explains her work uncovering legislation that contained and controlled the lives of Chinese people in the USA in the 19th century
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Andrew Kenrick unravels the amazing life of a young North African prince who went on to marry a daughter of Antony and Cleopatra, and rule an African kingdom
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Toby Green talks about the arrest of Crispina Peres, a powerful slave trader in the west African port of Cacheu, that provides a remarkable window into everyday life in 17th-century west Africa
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Erin Maglaque explores the history of the female body – and society's longstanding beliefs about it.
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The country house at war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
From the conscription of upper-class women to stories of great loss, Judith S Lewis charts the roles that country houses and their occupants really played in the WW2 war effort
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Acclaimed biographer Miranda Seymour explains the remarkable life and accomplishments of pioneering surgeon Vera Gedroits – and why her story was erased
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Historian Linford D Fisher discusses the enslavement of as many as 600,000 Native Americans between 1492 and 1880, and the impact that it had on tribal communities
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Rae Gillibrand highlights how bodily difference was understood in this pre-modern era
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Eric T Jennings explains the history of vanilla, and how piracy, espionage and cut-throat capitalism have shaped its story
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Kit Chapman guides Emily Briffett through a remarkable story of discovery that blurred the boundaries between science and mysticism
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North Korea's religious dictators. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Jonathan Cheng, Wall Street Journal correspondent, argues that the North Korean regime owes much to the enduring cult of personality around its founder, Kim Il-Sung
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Inside Venice’s Jewish ghetto. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Historian Alexander Lee explores why, in the early 16th century, Venice confined its Jewish population to a restricted quarter on an island in the city
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WW2's bloody battle for Arakan. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Military historian Lucy Betteridge-Dyson discusses an Allied offensive that launched daring amphibious assaults deep into Japanese-held territory, turning the tide of the Burma campaign
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Mia Hansson explains what her modern remake experience of making a replica of the embroidery can teach us about the women who made the original artefact in the 11th century
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Sean Cunningham reassesses the first Tudor king's critical reputation, exploring the delicate balancing act that defined his reign
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The Soviet spy who couldn't love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Ben Macintyre introduces an extraordinary agent with a sexual secret – a secret that changed the course of Iranian history and may, just may, have averted nuclear war
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Siddharth Kara tells the horrifying story of events on a slave ship – long mistakenly known as the Zong – which were to have consequences far beyond its murderous voyage
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Ian Mortimer guides Charlotte Vosper through the past 1,500 years of English history, viewed from the perspective of his own medieval home in Devon
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Simon Sebag Montefiore discusses his new book exploring the forces and figures that forged the Middle East
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William A Pettigrew discusses a landmark project he has led, identifying investors connected to the trafficking of enslaved African people
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What is ‘Europe’, anyway?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.
Historian Roderick Beaton explores what defines Europe
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What else can history teach us about CS Lewis? Michael Ward explores the life of the author
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Historian Edward Shawcross traces the strange path of Louis-Napoleon, from mocked pretender in exile to Emperor of the French
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In conversation with David Musgrove, Bayeux Tapestry exhibition curator Michael Lewis explains what the British Museum blockbuster is all about
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