Tag: history
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These folk ballads also defined a new type of protagonist, now known as the antihero—a familiar figure in film and pop culture, but also an invention of traditional singers. There are… more ›
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To understand the power of starting clean, you have to know the nuance of why the German military became as strong as it did in the 1930s. It starts at… more ›
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After centuries of remaining largely inaccessible to the public, a rare manuscript featuring 2,500 pages of detailed illustrations and text documenting the history and culture of 16th-century Mexico is now… more ›
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In this episode, Tom and Helen discuss the history of Britain’s relationship with the Israel-Palestine question; from Lloyd George and Winston Churchill, to Starmer’s recent opposition to calls for ceasefire.… more ›
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On 27 July 1825, a brig called Espadarte (Swordfish) docked in Rio de Janeiro and unloaded its expensive cargo: 422 Africans forcibly shipped across the Atlantic from Angola. It was… more ›
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One cannot think about the avant-garde without committing oneself to a theory of history. The term “avant-garde” was first applied to art in the early nineteenth century amid the euphoria… more ›
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A viral trend imagines alternate timelines in which Western imperial nations never came to power. The prompt is followed by a series of faux documentary images that narrate a history… more ›
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Famous criticism of Malcolm X by his fellow civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King Jr in a 1965 interview was largely falsified, according to a new King biography. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/10/martin-luther-king-jonathan-eig-book-malcolm-x more ›
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As we’re nearly a quarter of the way through the 21st Century, could we say when our current era really started? I’d argue that it didn’t start with a single… more ›