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Women were not really present during the signing of the Four Powers Agreement but they were at home in parliament. Film often demand sexy more sympathetic female characters
First uttered by Oliver Cromwell, the words David Davis used to ask Boris Johnson to step down have a storied past.
Archives are working had to document stories from Protestants, Catholics, Nationalists, Unionists and even the British Forces.
In an era before clinical trials, medical writers drew on the stories of explorers as evidence about the health effects of different foods and drinks.
There was a real man behind the swashbuckling hero who was as deft at sparring with his pen and sword as Rostand’s hero.
Ghana lost its federalism due to mistaken political choices and missed opportunities, suggesting that other federations in Africa might well be at similar risk.
Rumours and gossip dominated his short reign and the stories were more than just about the Princes in the Tower.
Twenty-five years after the signing of a peace accord that ended a 36-year civil war, Guatemala is still struggling with violence and corruption.
Taking lessons from the past could help enrich our diets for little cost
The calendar helps to give us a map of the shifting revolutions of the seasons, ordering our days. But how did it come about?
We tend to romanticise the Christmas season, that time of year when we gather with friends and family, feast and be merry. But for most of its history Christmas has been a time of sordid behaviour.
A scrapbook is a blank canvas upon which any activist can paint their story.
An exhaustive reassessment of the brutal ritual challenges the received wisdom that the ‘blood eagle’ was a medieval invention.
It’s a nice story but the picture used to illustrate the Christmas truce football match isn’t of it at all.
“Who could have imagined that it would simply collapse?” It’s been 30 years since the Soviet Union dissolved in the wake of a bungled reform effort by Mikhail Gorbachev - here’s what went wrong.
Although he privately disapproved of Caesar’s power, Cicero publicly supported him and Cicero also directly contributed to the end of the Roman Republic and the reign of Caesar’s nephew Augustus.
As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the invention of the punched card – and the birth of an industry.
France’s good and great are interred in this crypt.
Out of everything that Josephine Baker accomplished in her life, her child advocacy work is perhaps the most overlooked.
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Professor Emerita, Classical Studies, The Open University
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Associate Professor, Fashion History, De Montfort University
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Lillian Gilbreth Postdoctoral Fellow, Purdue University
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Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University
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ANU Visiting Professor, Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of History, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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