Is “Russophobia” why Poland and Russia don’t get along?
A new Moscow exhibition argues Poland is the problem
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The price of revolution
Jason Burke chronicles how radical activists in the 1970s found violent new ways to pursue their causes
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The liberating power of vodou
Slave risings across the Caribbean, argues Sudhir Hazareesingh’s new book, drew less on Enlightenment ideas than African spirit lore
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Christopher Marlowe’s stage fright
Stephen Greenblatt’s attempt to reconstruct the playwright’s story is brilliant – but Marlowe the man remains a mystery
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John Attlee: “I’d give my right arm for a couple of hours with Clem now”
The last Attlee on his grandfather’s legacy and losing the peerage
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Whigs and Tories shaped modern Britain
George Owers’s new book about the two-party political system is rich in history – but it misses one vital detail.
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Christianity’s political ascent
Alice Roberts’ history of the late Roman empire dispels the notion of a faith for the poor and oppressed –…
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Through the unknown gate
How Britain’s long European trauma was forged in wartime Algeria.
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