Artisanal miners at an illegal mine pit in the DRC. At severe risk to their health, some still go to abandoned sites to dig out uranium and cobalt.
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Susan Williams, School of Advanced Study, University of London
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.
Richard Demarco (left) with Joseph Beuys in the early 1970s.
The Demarco European Art Foundation
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: the mug.
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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.
Elie Wiesel in 2012 after being named as one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People.
EPA/Justin Lane
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.
The Yasakuni shrine commemorates those who are remembered for the wrong reasons.
Kakidai
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.
They might look like an alien species, but these bacteria-eating viruses could be the next big thing in the fight against infectious diseases.
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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.
Journalists Alexander Clifford of the Daily Mail and Alan Moorehead of the Daily Express in the North African desert, 1942.
Imperial War Museum, via Wikimedia Commons.
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.