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There’s plenty to criticise about that ancient approach We wouldn’t recognise the system practised in ancient Athens as democracy in the sense we understand it today. Women did not have the vote, and

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I was lucky enough to have grown up a stone’s throw from Clapham Common, south London. There was a pond where you could catch tadpoles and sticklebacks to take home in a jam jar, a bandstand where chi

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A new exhibition at the British Museum explores the mythmaking of Japan’s feudal warriors