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The classicist and historian heads for Bulgaria to visit archaeological sites that, among other highlights, offer insights into the prehistoric era and the early spread of Christianity through Europe.

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Art Deco became the defining style of the interwar years. But its bold glamour rested on a questionable patchwork of ...

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Speaking on her HistoryExtra Academy series on Tudor Life, historian Ruth Goodman explains how a nation without a standing ...

Elizabeth Vassall’s audacious deception highlights how wealth, slavery and patriarchy collided in Georgian Britain ...

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