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Last Updated on July 9, 2025 by Matt Staff Imagine stepping into the year 1912, not through dusty textbooks and ...
The common enemy of the first Franco-British rapprochement in the 1840s was the Metternich system, the reactionary absolutism ...
Warsaw's gorgeously reconstructed Old Town and, in its rising downtown, the new museum of modern art, by the New York–based ...
Nicholas Hilliard Portraits to be Sold from Waddesdon Manor . Picture: Waddesdon Manor. Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz: The Arts ...
Inside the world of British jeweler, silversmith, and goldsmith Mappin & Webb as it celebrates its 250th anniversary.
As Balmoral Castle opens to the public for its second season, Joe Little takes us on a tour of the Royal Family’s Scottish ...
World War II was a time of unimaginable hardship, courage, and transformation. Seemingly overnight, ordinary folks were ...
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Putin’s Next Mistake: Trying to Make Stalin Into A ‘Hero’
Time heals all wounds, it is said, and that certainly is the case in Russia. Moscow has unveiled a new statue of Joseph ...
Larissa Swirski was the only triple agent operating in Spain during World War II and a key figure in the battle for control of the western Mediterranean. 'Queen of Hearts' rescues her story in the ...
Robert Kaplan’s latest book on big geopolitical questions reflects a shift away from high-minded ideals in US establishment thought. But instead of self-critical pragmatism, what he offers as a ...
xxxvi, 658 pages : 20 cm This is a comprehensive overview of 20th-century Russian history that treats the years from 1917 to 2000 as a single period and analyses the peculiar mixture of political, ...
The author clearly has an affinity with his subject: Nicholas II was an incompetent ruler and Mr Radzinsky is an incompetent historian. Before I say another unkind word let me quote from the chapter ...