The film presents a welcome lesson in the importance of speaking truth to power, regardless of the pressure that results.
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What grants influential women visibility and diplomatic status? Women in Diplomacy day on June 24 is an opportunity to consider how female-led efforts are recognised, valued and remembered.
Italian and British governments conspired to brand Violet Albina Gibson ‘insane’ as it was politically expedient.
With Keir Starmer, the 5th British prime minister in ten years now sitting in an ejector seat, the nation is dreaming of a “new Churchill”, but is this the ideal role model for Britain’s current predicament?
The Austrian capital of Vienna has long been a hub of espionage.
Fuel shortages are rising worldwide, and some countries have started rationing fuel. Wartime rationing offers a model for managing scarcity more fairly.
Donald Trump’s claim rests on a selective reading of wartime history.
A person’s gender does not matter on the battlefield, and history agrees.
Despite handsome production design, almost nothing in Freddie’s story has a ring of authenticity.
Kiah Roache-Turner’s new film is a unique blend of war thriller and shark survival gore. And while it could have been thematically deeper, it still packs a punch.
Comparing Finland’s situation in 1944 and Ukraine’s current war with Russia is problematic and possibly misleading.
Macau saw an influx of refugees during the war, with some going on to influence all facets of life in the territory.
Episode eight, Who Are You?, is a poignant portrayal of propaganda, collective resistance and military force.
Russian political figures are worried that young people nowadays are disconnected from their heritage.
Why is it that, after all these years, we continue to meet We’ll Meet Again again, and again and again?
Eighty years on from VE Day, it’s crucial we remember how ethnically diverse those veterans were and how much they can teach us about the meaning of life.
European members of Nato are scrambling to find a solution to the problem of the US wanting to be less involved.
Filmed as war raged across Europe, Children of Paradise is a masterpiece: a nostalgic love letter to Paris, the theatre and the spirit of resistance.
Again and again, Bonhoeffer substitutes conventionalised melodrama for difficult history.
Several films have tackled the topic of Holocaust memory in recent years, including 2025 Oscar nominees The Brutalist and A Real Pain.
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Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Faculty Member, Asian Studies Program, Georgetown University; Visiting Fellow, Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University., Georgetown University
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Fellow of the Institute of Historical Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Lecturer in Military History, Lincoln Bishop University
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Associate Professor of Journalism, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Professor of History, Western Michigan University
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Associate Professor of History, The University of Queensland
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Research Fellow, University of Warwick
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Senior lecturer, Monash University
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Senior Lecturer, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of History, ANU / Chercheur Associé at the Centre d’Histoire de Sciences Po, Australian National University
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford