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The right don’t own tradition, but they can keep Morris dancing

How do we connect with the past when this impulse is often exploited by the worst people imaginable?

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As an ambassador in London, Benjamin Franklin honed his satirical, subversive art.

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History will record this deed as an achievement of the highest order.

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The immigration minister is reopening a dark chapter in British history.

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The Brighton bomb killed five people but failed to hit its target, Margaret Thatcher.

By Michael Burleigh

The human rights activist on what the violence and homophobia of the 1983 by-election teaches today’s left.

By Zoë Grünewald

How a centuries-old institution can save today’s faltering social media culture.

By Jeremy Cliffe

Kyiv’s lionisation of 20th-century nationalists linked to atrocities is alienating allies and playing into Russian propaganda.

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