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When a Victorian celebrity sportsman was found to be taking performance-enhancing drugs it caused a sensation, not a scandal.

Privatisation of Chile’s natural resources was a pillar of Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship.

Evelyn Cheesman travelled to Vanuatu and brought back a poison-tipped spear and a new understanding of the natural world.

Hollywood’s Cold War dissidents in Ireland.

The suggestion that Russia has become an Orwellian tyranny is an inadequate explanation as to why the country finds itself in its present situation.

What historical topic have I changed my mind on? I thought the sacrifice of young women in the Bronze Age was a myth. It wasn’t.

A part-memoir, part-historical exploration of British Second World War masculinity and sexuality.

A now commonplace device, Joseph Priestley’s timeline revolutionised how we view history. 

Thriving in troubled times, the allure of a good conspiracy theory has proved irresistible whenever and wherever authorities are not trusted. What’s the damage? 

The correspondents who reported on a period when Russia changed European, and world, history.