Independent Protestants landed on Plymouth Rock in November 1620.
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Shadow of A Queen
The exiled queen's presence in England set in motion a deadly game of faith, power, and espionage that would define Elizabeth’s reign.
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Emma Sergeant’s ‘La Selva Oscura’ – Review
In a new exhibition, the artist transforms Dante’s “dark wood” into a landscape of birch trees, animals, and memory.
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From Fact into Fiction: The Origins of The Devils of Cardona
The historian and author draws on Spain’s Morisco past, persecution and intrigue within his novel.
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What is the Blood Price?
The novelist's latest is a departure from the Norman invasion, but what's the story behind it?
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Alexander the Great in the Dock
Classics for All’s latest 'moot trial' brought history’s greatest commander to the Supreme Court.
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Hadrian’s Wall: Strategic Masterpiece or Monumental Folly?
Was Hadrian's Wall built to keep out barbarians, or rather to demonstrate the power of Rome?
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Unionism & The Treaty
Ulster leader James Craig thought he had beaten Lloyd George during the Anglo-Irish Treaty negotiations.
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Guilty Until Proven Innocent
Lovers in colonial India plotted to murder their spouses with disastrous results.
Mátyás Rákosi: Committed Stalinist
Martyn Rady
In Mátyás Rákosi, First Secretary of the Hungarian Working People’s Party, Josef Stalin had a devoted acolyte.
When Fact is As Good As Fiction
Claire Derry
A war hero's daughter writes about the true story behind works of fiction.
Why Colonialism?
Nigel Biggar
Nigel Biggar has examined Britain’s colonial past with a moral lense, and with a nuanced and balanced approach.
The Slipperiness of History
The author of a trilogy of Renaissance set novels describes her heroine, the creator of a mysterious potion. Or was she?
Who Wins in a Struggle Between Oppenheimer and Turing?
The film by Christopher Nolan has now cleaned up at the Bafta awards but what about the Oscars?
The Pol Roger Duff Cooper Prize
Congratulations to Julian Jackson, the author of France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain
Historical Heroes: Charles Dickens
It would be hard to better this Historical Hero, the great Charles Dickens.
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