Today’s featured articles
Founded to safeguard the world’s heritage, UNESCO’s status often threatens what it seeks to protect.
As mentioned on the Empire podcast, Cecil Rhodes was once described as the single biggest threat to peace in southern Africa. In 1898 a bitter election campaign did little to suggest otherwise.
As mentioned on the Empire podcast, Scotland’s short-lived, catastrophic Central American colony exposed its precarious relationship with England. Was closer union an inevitable result?
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Brushing for Britain
The First World War revealed the bad state of Britain’s teeth. Intervention was required to keep the nation biting fit.
‘Patria’ by Laurence Blair review
In Patria: Lost Countries of South America, Laurence Blair explores nine nations, dissolved or imagined, and what they tell us about Latin America.
Is it Possible to Forgive and Forget?
Where fraught national histories are concerned, do policies of remembrance and education work, or is it better to wipe the slate clean?
The Allure of Medieval Churches
The ancient stones of churches are portals to the past. Each new generation becomes a custodian.
Doc Holliday: The Perennial Sidekick
Misfit, Old West villain or tragic hero of the O.K. Corral: who was the real Doc Holliday?
‘The Last Dynasty’ and ‘The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome’ review
Can The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra and The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome: A History of the Ptolemies fashion a finale for the pharaohs?
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome
Ancient Roman election advice suggested some uncomfortable campaign strategies. Evidence from Pompeii suggests many candidates followed it enthusiastically.
The Conservative Party Popularity Contest
How the first Conservative leadership election modernised the party in the 1960s.
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