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It’s been 200 years since the discovery of one of the oldest human burial sites in western Europe on the Gower peninsula in south Wales.
Spain has long avoided addressing the fact that tens of thousands of Spaniards were victims of Nazis, who collaborated with Spain’s former dictator, Francisco Franco.
Liberal schools of thought largely inform how Muslims are viewed across Europe, research finds.
People across much of North Africa were subject to racist laws and suffering at the hands of European powers during the Second World War.
The US and the Soviet Union never engaged in direct combat, but their influences were felt worldwide, including in armed conflicts involving other nations.
During a two-decade period of English history known as the Anarchy, a woman sought to make the then-unprecedented move of ascending to the English throne.
Catherine de’ Medici was Queen of France, the mother of three kings and two queens, and the mother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Popes’ roles have changed over time. Some periods produced plenty of saintly popes, while others are notorious for the opposite.
During the Cold War, Russia’s refusal to allow Jews to leave the country reflected its political aims. The same is likely true today, a Jewish studies scholar explains.
The idea of a ‘witch’ was usually female in Western Europe, but not so in Orthodox Russia – partly because of the period’s rigid social hierarchies.
Churches’ struggles to respond to the plague and constant warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries helped shape the kinds of Christianity in the world today.
Religion plays an important role in expansive views of Russian nationhood. But faith has played a role in Ukrainian nationalism, too.
Straight from our experts, here are five books to help you understand what’s happening right now in Ukraine and Russia, from a must-read history of Ukraine to a literary classic with insights into the Russian soul.
Ukrainians believe they have an identity separate from Russia. Russia, on the other hand, believes that Ukraine and Russia share the same history.
Yom HaShoah is a day to commemorate the murder of 6 million Jews – but also their lives. Yizker bikher books lovingly document Jewish communities across Europe.
The two countries have a lot of shared history, but Ukraine has a distinct and independent past.
Witch trials relied on a medieval text called the “Malleus Maleficarum” – a book this reference librarian can hold in her hands.
The past century’s vampires have often been a bit dashing, even romantic. That’s not how the myth started out.
Historians and scientists discovered how colonisation in eastern Europe changed ecosystems – and the societies embedded in them.
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Mathematician and Ancient DNA Researcher, University of Adelaide
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Associate Professor of Medieval History, University of Oxford
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Hansen Professor in History, Deputy Dean, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Philosophy, Australian Catholic University
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Researcher at the Center for International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, New York University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Assistant Professor, History Department; Campus Coordinator for the American Democracy Project, California State University San Marcos
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Honorary Fellow of the School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professor Emerita of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor of German and European Studies, UNSW Sydney
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Charles Warren Professor of History, Harvard University
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Professor of Medieval Literature and English Literature, Bangor University
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Associate Professor in International Politics, University of Southampton
