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The discovery of a cave full of manuscripts on the edge of the Gobi Desert reveals the details of everyday life on the Silk Road.

Despite persecution, Catholics survived in Protestant England. For the authorities, they were a problem with a silver lining.

Hans Josef Lazar pulled the strings of Hitler’s propaganda in wartime Spain. Then he disappeared. Who was he?

‘The more I read, the more I change my mind.’

The ‘way of tea’ is a ritual experience that embodies the natural world with all its imperfections.

Charles XII of Sweden had a thirst for war, which made him a target for the British press.

The ‘pragmatic and principled’ Harold Wilson.

Vladimir Putin has decried the ‘decadent West’ as destined to fail as a result of its degeneracy. Fears of decadence are not new.

Understanding the Indigenous American past, from the earliest records of settlement up to the Ghost Dance revitalisation movement.

The debate over whether nature or nurture guides who we are is as dependent on politics and ideology as it is on scientific research.