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The Lives of Napoleon | History Today
Two hundred years after his death, what more is there to say about Napoleon Bonaparte? He remains a perennially popular…
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Britannia’s ‘Huns’ | History Today
Bodies of British officers killed in Dublin on Bloody Sunday are taken for burial, 25 November 1920 © Hulton Getty…
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Napoleon: Two Centuries of Life after Death
Napoleon on his Deathbed on St Helena, by Denzil O. Ibbetson, 1821. The French press announced the following on 7…
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America’s Western Problem | History Today
A Navajo woman and two young men at Ford Defiance, in what was then New Mexico, 1873. Photo by Timothy H…
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Pigeon Racing: A Miner’s World?
In Ron Berry’s 1982 story ‘Time Spent’, Lewis Rimmer, a 57-year-old Welsh miner, decides to die among his pigeons. After…
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Miners Amongst the Pigeons | History Today
In Ron Berry’s 1982 story ‘Time Spent’, Lewis Rimmer, a 57-year-old Welsh miner, decides to die among his pigeons. After…
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A Radical Pocket Book | History Today
Picture the Emancipation Proclamation, the Civil War-era executive order that changed the legal status of enslaved African Americans in secessionist…
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The Chosen Peoples | History Today
Menasseh ben Israel, by Rembrandt van Rijn, 1636 © akg-images. Members of the Anglo-Jewish Historical Society gathered in London in February…
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East Africa’s Tourist War | History Today
‘Spectacular in Color’ film poster for Serengeti, 1960. Alamy. During a 1960 broadcast of his popular television programme A Place for…
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Germany United | History Today
The Reichstag 1886, coloured print © akg-images. When the freshly elected members of parliament met on 14 April 1871, at…
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