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A selection of historical conundrums answered by experts
When did Britain
Few objects in the long history of the Catholic church stir the imagination quite like the fabled sedia stercoraria. With a name that roughly translates as ‘dung chair’, the myth of the so-called papa
When Tipu Sultan resisted Britain’s colonial expansion, he was painted as a bogeyman and, after he fell, his kingdom was looted with shocking rapacity, but his legacy has long awed the British–not least William Blake and John Keats, as Lucien de Guise discovers
No More Napoleons: How Britain Managed Europe from ...
This year’s British Grand Prix marks the 75th anniversary of the first Formula 1 World championship race, which was held at Silverstone in May 1950. Paul Lawrence looks back
O n a recent trip to Boston, I ...
FOUNDATIONS ROME BEFORE ROME The legends that ...
