The mine that produced the uranium that made the Hiroshima bomb has since been closed. But its troubling legacy continues to haunt the Democratic Republic of Congo and the local community.
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Richard Demarco, aka Mr Edinburgh Festival, has been fostering vital UK links with artists around the world for decades.
Previous efforts to cement national cohesion offer a model but also, says a historian, a warning.
For many contemporary observers, the Spanish Civil War was seen as very much of a piece with the war against Hitler and Mussolini. But then things changed. Why?
Keep Calm and Carry On is now a pop cultural phenomenon, symbolising the famed British ‘stiff upper lip’. But rather than being a nostalgic relic of a reassuring past, Keep Calm should be seen as a symbol of terror.
The Nobel laureate chronicled a world gone mad.
One publisher spent over 40 years trying to profit off Hitler’s hateful tome.
The ‘functional immunity’ granted to UN officials made good sense when the body was founded after World War II. But as its organisational functions have expanded, so has this immunity.
Mourning a death is natural and necessary, but sometimes politics gets in the way of grief.
Speaking at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, Barack Obama sounded a hopeful note – but both the US and Japan still fall short.
As the tension in the East China Sea continues to mount, Japan’s militaristic conservatives are putting their country on an aggressive footing.
We have the technology to phase out fossil fuels, but it will take more than that.
Five thousand Australian nurses served during World War Two. One of them, Dorothy Campbell endured air raids and tended wounded men in freezing tents - but the war opened her eyes to a more adventurous world.
The virus that could cure antibiotic resistant infections.
Many groups have been labeled ‘enemy’ in the American past. A literary scholar looks at the role literature and philosophy have played in dispelling fears and shifting public attitudes.
Alan Moorehead’s accounts of the second world war revealed his vital and gripping talent, but his peacetime novels were stilted and corny. A new biography delves into his life and language.
It’s time for Britain to grow up, accept its place in Europe and, yes, join the euro.
Charged with collaboration with the Nazis, in 1944, 240,000 Crimean Tartars were deported to Soviet Central Asia.
There’s something every Scot should know about those caterwauling pipes.
Many women played a role in the Home Guard, despite the fact that they weren’t strictly supposed to.
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Principal of South College, Durham University
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Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
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Anthropologue, Maîtresse de conférences à l'Université de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg
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Research Fellow, King's College London
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Principal Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Senior Lecturer in Public History, Leeds Beckett University
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Professor Emeritus in Contemporary German History, Nottingham Trent University
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Professor of Russian Culture and Film, Queen Mary University of London
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Associate Professor of History, UNSW Sydney
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Extraordinary Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Professor in Communication Studies, McMaster University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Professor Emeritus of Modern European History, University of Essex
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Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford
