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Who – or what – was Martha? What was founded by Octavia Hill in 1895? 

Rome’s First Citizen brings peace to its territories.

There has been no shortage of historical events put forward to explain Britain’s current political crisis, but do any of them seriously inform debate?

The First World War allowed women to distinguish themselves in professions previously closed to them.

This podcast looks at how Isidore Salmon, the force behind J Lyons & Co., threatened to withdraw advertising from the Daily Mail and Daily Mirror in 1934.

In our latest podcast, Dan Jones discusses the year 1147, when the Second Crusade was launched.

How important is the study of the powerful, epoch-defining individual?

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Which moment would I most like to go back to? Berlin at the end of the First World War.

A pitiless, profound and influential Greek myth.