Looted ornaments from the Asante empire are held in several European museums.
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A loan deal for the Asante artefacts offers an opportunity for these objects to return home.
Callum Turner in Masters of the Air.
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The American military buildup in Britain –popularly known as the “friendly invasion” – was an unprecedented moment in British history.
King Alfred the Great inciting the Anglo Saxons to repel the invasion of the Danes.
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Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
A Communist Party supporter holds a portrait of Josef Stalin in Red Square in Moscow.
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The whitewashing of former Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and his crimes is crucial for understanding Russian President Vladimir Putin’s imperialist ideology and goals.
Detail from The Book of Kells, folio 291v.
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The pages of The Book of Kells certainly contain some of the elements that have been used to identify drug use in modern and contemporary art.
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The Australian War memorial recently announced it will extend its exhibition to recognise the Frontier Wars, where Aboriginal resistance fighters fought in retaliation to massacres and other attacks.
Suffragette Rosa May Billinghurst used her tricycle wheelchair to obstruct police.
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Disability is often omitted from popular narratives of important figures from history.
Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God (1873)
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A team of archaeologists discovered the remains of the 16th-century father of modern astronomy, who demonstrated that the Earth orbits the Sun.
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The evolution of sexual behaviour is a long and complicated tale. Taking a long view involves a degree of speculation.
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Since the Victorian age, tobacco has been a form of stress relief.
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The 24-hour system was independently invented multiple times.
The Mari Lwyd makes a welcome appearance in Chepstow.
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The Mari Lwyd and the plygain are two prominent Welsh traditions celebrated over Christmas and the new year.
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Early products focused on tanning. Others roasted you like a chicken. Which of these claims can you remember?
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Ridley Scott’s film is not intended to paint a romanticised image of Napoleon, but rather immerse the viewer in the dilemmas and complexities of power.
The gingerbread house traces its origins to 18th-century Germany.
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Ginger, a staple spice in this Christmas confection, may help reduce the risk of colds and help with digestion.
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Napoleon has unleashed a torrent of objections to the film’s historical errors. More important for historians should be whether creative works pass the test of authenticity.
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The series addresses the role of samurai, what life was like for women and people of mixed heritage, and violence in Edo-period Japan, with varying degrees of accuracy.
Too Many Blackamoors by Heather Agyepong (2021).
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The exhibition celebrates and interrogates the cultural afterlives of Victorian Britain.
Men and boys, many dressed as women, attacking a turnpike gate in protest at charges at tollgates on public roads in west Wales. The Illustrated London News, 1843.
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The Rebecca riots saw Welsh farmers disguised as women destroy tollgates as a way of challenging what they believed was an oppressive taxation system.
Waiting By The Window by Carl Holsøe.
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Hybrid flowers became a metaphor for sterility at the end of the 19th century.