As well as creating new regulations on faith, Henry VIII’s 16th-century government also decided which kinds of knowledge were ...

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Before the Cold War hardened into coups and counterinsurgency, the United States backed reformist governments across Latin ...

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Amid the industrial warfare of the Second World War, battlefield performance depended on precise logistics and the ability to absorb catastrophic losses. How did America, Germany and the Soviet Union ...

For most people in Tudor England, an ordinary diet was more structured – and often more varied – than we might expect ...

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Ancient Rome’s reputation for bad emperors partly rests on hostile sources written after the fact – and Domitian may be the clearest case of how politics shaped historical memory ...

In 1066, as everybody knows, the Normans invaded England. That most engaging of all medieval sources, the Bayeux Tapestry, shows them landing their horses at Pevensey in Sussex and racing to occupy ...

Cosimo de' Medici (later known as Cosimo the Elder) was, according to Pope Pius II, “king in all but name” of Florence. This was not entirely a compliment: like Pius's home city of Siena (a Tuscan ...