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In Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz, the author-inmate asks a camp guard a simple question: ‘Why?’ The guard replies: ‘There is no

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When most people – and perhaps most historians – think of magic and its practitioners in the Middle Ages and

The Viking Age was characterised above all by movement. The geographical range of Viking voyages was vast, and those adventurous

Move over, fraternité: sisterhood rules in this group biography of Juliette Récamier, Térézia Tallien and Marie Josèphe Rose Tascher de

In the span of a few decades the Muslims transformed from a tribal confederation of Bedouins to masters of a

In 1919 ‘Bessie B.’, aged 24, was committed to Abingdon Workhouse, known locally as ‘the Grubber’, under the Mental Deficiency

In 1945, after six years of bitter fighting, Britain found itself tasked with occupying a vast area of Northern Europe

As we slide towards Earth’s sixth extinction event and look covetously towards planets endowed with precious rare metals, Roger Crowley’s

In 1863 Napoleon III received a letter from an adviser outlining a terrifying future. The population of the United States