The King’s table was full of flavours from the British empire and beyond.
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The people who put up these giant stones did not choose the nearest possible source.
Through the 1920s the fledgling Soviet Union was convinced that Britain was conniving at its destruction.
Ellizabeth I’s refusal to go to bed was a deliberate final act, shaped by a lifetime of political strategy, emotional restraint and unresolved reckoning.
Wilson clashed with Lyndon B. Johnson on a personal level but made sure that the US and UK still cooperated where it most mattered.
Emerald Fennell’s film is not interested in the racial commentary many critics have found in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
The royal family has crossed paths with the law before, but not for a very long time. And back then, it brought down the monarchy.
‘Most of us can be happy, if not extravagantly merry this Christmas. Most of us, but not all.’
The memoir of Nathaniel Isaacs, a Jewish merchant who found himself shipwrecked in what is now South Africa, influenced Shaka’s long-lasting fame abroad.
Espionage trials risk revealing the sometimes highly confidential methods by which evidence had been gathered against the accused.
Gin Lane is an imagined thoroughfare where the consumption of gin has deprived the inhabitants of sense, finances – and in some instances life.
How on earth did someone of German-Jewish origin manage to integrate himself into the close-knit smuggling fraternity of Sussex?
Examining Austen as a radical genius misunderstands her art and misrepresents the imperial culture that she was part of.
The announcement of an inquiry has been a long time coming for miners’ groups.
Newspapers, politicians and others invoked the ‘we can take it’ narrative of Blitz spirit.
From the first on-screen lesbian kiss to a much-loved transgender soap star, these moments paved the way for better queer representation.
A podcast detailing the wartime diary of 26-year-old Lorna Lloyd resonated deeply with participants of a new study.
Overseas development has always fallen in and out of favour between governments. But this feels different – and terminal.
The building formed the centre of administrative and civic life in the ancient Roman city of Londinium.
While the origins of the cross as a kiss are still debated, the answer likely lies in the letters of working-class lovers like these.
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary British History, Newcastle University
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Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Political Communication, University of Liverpool
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Lecturer in Politics, Edge Hill University
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Emeritus Professor of Roman Archaeology, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies, Brunel University of London
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Visiting Fellow in History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of History, The Open University
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Professor of History & Director of the Dresher Center for the Humanities, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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PhD Researcher (Conceptual History of Meritocracy), University of Nottingham
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Researcher in Early Modern History, University of Southampton
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Lecturer in eighteenth-century history, The Open University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen