Border conflicts, spanning different time periods and places, are behind many of the big international disputes today.
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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 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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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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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.
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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