History
What would Britain look like today if we’d chosen to follow the roads not taken? | Martin Kettle
An exhibition in Berlin explores 14 alternative histories for Germany. What a shame that we don’t do the same, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
Martin Kettle
31, May, 2023 @3:55 PM
National Trust working on policy on return of colonial loot, chair says
René Olivieri tells Hay festival the charity is in process of deciding what to do about stolen objects in its properties
Lucy Knight
30, May, 2023 @6:44 PM
Dame Rosemary Cramp obituary
Archaeologist who led excavations at the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, home to the Venerable Bede
Mike Pitts
28, May, 2023 @4:40 PM
Rod Kedward obituary
Historian who brought to light the important role of rural communities in the French resistance during the second world war
Hanna Diamond
22, May, 2023 @3:46 PM
Readers reply: why do Americans use the term ‘Victorian’?
The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts
21, May, 2023 @1:00 PM
Farewell, racial stereotypes. Now we have the true tale of an Indian princess turned suffragette | Anjli Mohindra
South Asian actors are at last leaving behind terrorist roles for ones drawn from history
Anjli Mohindra
21, May, 2023 @8:32 AM
Elain Harwood obituary
Architectural historian who championed the preservation of England’s postwar buildings and the brutalist style
Alan Powers
08, May, 2023 @4:40 PM
Imperial War Museum to exhibit conflicting perspectives on Troubles
London museum will display array of testimonies and archive photographs collected over the years
Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent
30, Apr, 2023 @12:02 PM
Our bronze age coronation rites seem to speak to a modern love of the sacred | Tom Holland
Rituals dating back millennia offer a weird mix of Christianity and the supernatural
Tom Holland
30, Apr, 2023 @8:01 AM
Donald Hinds obituary
Writer, teacher and historian whose book Journey to an Illusion provided an insight into the lives of postwar Black immigrants
Nia Reynolds
23, Apr, 2023 @2:15 PM
Bill Dusinberre obituary
Other lives: Reader in history at Warwick University who specialised in writing about American slavery
Michael Tadman
21, Apr, 2023 @4:03 PM
Ross Kemp: Deep Sea Treasure Hunter review – soap star swims up to the mark in search of Tudor gems
Essentially submarine Detectorists, this travelogue has a winningly excitable Kemp ditching violent ganglands to trawl the depths of the Mary Rose
Stuart Jeffries
10, Apr, 2023 @9:00 PM
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