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Did you know that Thomas Müntzer, leader of the German Peasants’ War in 1525, used a rainbow flag to rally his followers? It’s an aptly exuberant image for the radical charisma of Müntzer, and for the

I read recently that scientists allegedly agree that there is no increase in extreme weather events and conditions. If that’s so, the journals I checked must not yet have got the memo. The German Helm

Cudillero, Asturias, Spain Photographer: James Cheadle. There are ...

The author of a Spanish literary masterpiece

Anno 117: Pax Romana Ubisoft Mainz/ £49.99 At its height in AD 117, the Roman empire stretched from the sun-baked sands of Egypt to the wind-lashed shores of Britannia. It was the scope and scale of t

With Hallowe’en out of the way, Christmas is the next big ghostly occasion in the UK traditional calendar. But what, one may wonder, of the rest of Europe? Ghost hunter Peter Underwood called Europe “