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Supported by both slaveholders and abolitionists for different reasons, the founding of Liberia is a history of the near impossible. Perhaps its greatest feat was survival. 

In 1726, Mary Toft gave birth to rabbits. The case became a test of the doctors’ scientific principles.

Recent political crises have shown the importance – and neglect – of constitutional history.

Acre was the most cosmopolitan city in the medieval world. Its inhabitants thought it too valuable to destroy. They were wrong.

Stately homes surrounded by extravagant gardens are a staple of the English countryside, but how were they funded?

Europeans did not introduce slavery to North America – although they did change the way it was practised.

Love and possession during the Italian economic miracle.

The most powerful family of Florence and the most powerful man in the world offer a new solution to one of the most notorious crimes of the age.

A Victorian doctor offering to cure female ‘lunacy’ came under fire for his scandalous new operation: female genital mutilation.