Lin-Manuel Miranda plays Jack, a lamplighter, in the sequel to the original 1964 film.
Disney
The lamps that once lit London’s streets have come to symbolize a certain time and place in British history.
A 1903 drawing by Louis Dalrymple depicts European immigrants as “rats” (in the magazine Judge ).
New York Public Library
The deepening geographic, racial, gender and educational divisions in America shows some striking parallels between the nation today and in the 1920s.
Still the centre?
Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire
The ‘centre’ has long been chasing the right on immigration politics.
Team member Felix Knight looks through archives at the Church of Espiritu Santo in Havana, Cuba.
David LaFevor
The Slave Societies Digital Archive documents the lives of approximately 6 million free and enslaved Africans in the Americas.
French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte after a meeting with the Romanian president at the Elysee presidential palace (November 27, 2018).
Bertrand Gauy/AFP
With some “Gilet jaune” protestors calling for the removal of Emmanuel Macron, the French constitution is being criticized anew for concentrating too much power in the hands of the president.
Mstyslav Chernov
In the shadow of the pyramids of Giza, lie the tombs of the courtiers and officials who built these vast structures.
One of the plundered Benin plaques, at the British Museum.
Shutterstock.
Colonial powers plundered the heritage of countries all over the world – restitution is long overdue.
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Ancient Egyptians believed shaving was associated with cleanliness but Greeks were proud of their beards, which symbolised authority and wisdom.
One of the photographs from Terry Kurgan’s book.
Supplied/Jasek Kurgan
In Terry Kurgan’s book family history, however tortuous, is subsumed into a greater history of the greatest atrocity.
‘Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor’ by William Halsall (1882).
Pilgrim Hall Museum
The Pilgrims repeatedly thanked God for their good fortune. But without two earlier developments, the entire undertaking at New Plymouth would have likely failed.
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, Yale University
Religion has helped science, as well as hindered it.
The Famine Memorial in Dublin, by sculptor Rowan Gillespie.
Ron Cogswell
The famine caused a million deaths and scarred the national psyche for generations. How do you even start to try and represent that in film literature, or art?
A crowd at Martin Place, Sydney, celebrates the news of the signing of the Armistice on November 11 1918.
Australian War Memorial
This year marks 100 years since the fighting stopped in the first world war. The commemoration of the armistice, Remembrance Day, remains potent but is also changing with the times.
A display of acrobatics by German internees at the prisoner of war camp at Newbury Racecourse in Berkshire in October 1914.
Imperial War Museum/Wikimedia
During First World War, the rhetoric of chivalry counteracted the inhumanity of the conflict in sometimes surprising ways.
Carmel Building in Diagonal Street, Johannesburg.
Museum Africa (left) Yeshiel Panchia (right)
Johannesburg Then and Now is an important book about what ought to be appreciated and “saved”.
German citizens in Magdeburg the morning after Kristallnacht.
German Federal Archive
Eight decades on, the thought of the state encouraging people to attack groups of citizens is hard to believe. Here are some books that might help.
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In 2008, the first undated coin was introduced in the UK for more than 300 years.
A man adds his comments to a spontaneous memorial of flowers and sidewalk writing that has appeared a block from the Tree of Life Synagogue on Monday, Oct. 29. A gunman shot a killed 11 people while they worshipped at the synagogue the Saturday before.
Gene J. Puskar/AP Photo
To grasp how extraordinary evils are often committed by ordinary people, we need to consider how we define evil, and most importantly, whom we consider to be the agents of evil.
An early voter in Norwalk, California.
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
The odds favor a big year for Democrats, but the extent of their gains is still in doubt.
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From sun dials to atomic clocks, we still don’t have a perfect time measuring device.