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Nigel Saul discusses attempts to revive the crusading zeal in late medieval Europe and explains why they failed to rekindle the fervour of the earlier movement.

Carmen Callil talks to Martin Evans about her recent excursion into the lies and hypocrisy of Vichy France.

The man who ‘discovered’ the Americas died aged 55 on 20 May 1506.

Richard Cavendish describes the massacre of the 'slave hounds' at the settlement of Pottawatomie Creek on May 24th, 1856.

Mark Bryant describes how the Daily Mail nearly became the first national daily in Britain to feature large political cartoons on its front page, fifteen years before Dyson’s huge drawings appeared in the Daily Herald.

Discovered during the French occupation but seized by the victorious British after six months of desert battle, the Rosetta Stone symbolized the struggle for cultural supremacy between two great rivals.

Margaret Walsh tracks down an attempt to link the appeal of the greyhound with the brand values of a famous American company.

Mike Huggins revisits the early years of British greyhound racing, the smart modern sports craze of interwar Britain.