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The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors
The Bayeux Tapestry: Woven by the Victors James Hoare span property="schema:dateCreated" content="2026-08-13T15:41:02+00:00" class="field field--name-cre...
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The Absurdity of Albert Camus
For Albert Camus understanding the past and predicting the future may hinge on one fact: history is absurd.
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The Legend of the Gibbet
Did live gibbeting ever take place in Britain? For the Victorians, the macabre question was a pressing one.
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Human Canaries: Remembering the Munitionettes
The women who served as munitions workers during the First World War endured dismal conditions and a plethora of dangers: illness, injury, and death. Why are they barely remembered?
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How Did the English Arrive in Britain?
Bede wrote that the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes invaded Britain en masse in the fifth century. Does the evidence agree?
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The Meadows of Medieval Summer
Chaucer's meadows are romantic landscapes of leisurely frolicking. But for medieval haymakers July meant a month of hard graft.
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How Does History Judge Prime Ministers?
Political reputations are forged by actions, but the long view of Britain's prime ministers can be hard to predict.
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The Crusade of Hormuz
Looking for a new route to Jerusalem, medieval crusaders turned to the Strait of Hormuz.
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Cypriot Graffiti in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptian monuments are covered in graffiti made by visitors from Cyprus. Why were they there, and what does it mean?
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Disputing the Declaration of Independence
That the United States declared its independence in July 1776 is well known; that the British state commissioned, but never published, a counter-declaration is not.
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