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Alcohol was an integral part of diplomacy in early modern Russia.

In the 1950s Mills & Boon’s medical romances helped make the NHS more appealing to an ambivalent British public.

What can rock art of the desert tell us about life and death 10,000 years ago?

Mississippi’s governors have had a unique approach to prison labour and prisoner rehabilitation.

How did women experience warfare in early medieval Britain?

The extraordinary insurrections of Gustave Paul Cluseret.

While science and medicine advance, myths around menstruation persist.

The impact and long-term legacy of Uruguay’s progressive leader.

Why are medieval women largely absent from current discussions of Armenia’s past?

Oradour-sur-Glane is now known as a memorial to a brutal massacre, but the lives of its inhabitants have been neglected.