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Portrait of the artists

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January 2026

TRACY BORMAN is enraptured by a beautifully written and richly illustrated exploration of early modern English art

When you hear the words ‘Tudor art’, chances are that an image of a Holbein portrait springs to mind. However, as this illuminating new book shows, the German-born painter was only one of a dazzling cast of characters involved in creating the art of the Tudor period. As well as offering a fresh perspective on celebrated portraits of monarchs and their courtiers, Christina J Faraday’s compelling and beautifully constructed narrative pulls out of the shadows an eclectic array of art and artefacts: charters, clocks, cushions, clothes, coins, statues, furniture, jewels, manuscripts, miniatures, scrolls and tapestries.

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A treaty transformed North American history

California became American territory just days after gold had been discovered in the Sierra Nevada foothills – and Mexico lost out

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3 mins

April 2026

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England's mistress

Nell Gwyn became famous for her love affair with Charles II, and for her love of drinking, gambling and carousing. Yet, writes Sophie Shorland, this upwardly mobile celebrity was also a canny political operator who wielded substantial power in court

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10 mins

April 2026

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Across history, intellectual life repeatedly becomes suspect when societies fracture

A mistrust of ‘experts’ and ‘intellectuals’ has recently crystallised into US government interventions targeting academic institutions. EMILY KNOX and JOAN SCOTT share their thoughts with Danny Bird about the troubling history of anti-intellectualism

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9 mins

April 2026

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BLOOD AND PLUNDER

It's a tale of slavery, racism and naked imperial power. Barnaby Phillips traces the fate of the exquisite golden treasures looted by British forces from the kingdom of Asante 150 years ago

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10 mins

April 2026

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THE FACE FIXATION

From a Stone Age Venus and an Egyptian death mask to an unflinchingly challenging 21st-century sculpture, Fay Bound-Alberti introduces seven depictions of the face that track humanity's ever-evolving relationship with creativity, hierarchy and self-image

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9 mins

April 2026

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ROME'S PEOPLE POWER

From Romulus's open-city policy to Claudius's reforms, citizenship was used by Rome as both a reward and a weapon. And, as Shushma Malik explains, it enabled the burgeoning empire to build power and define identity

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10 mins

April 2026

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Sex in the city

A study of the understanding and treatment of sexually transmitted disease fascinates

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2 mins

April 2026

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How medieval mothers took back control

In the Middle Ages, the bearing and raising of children defined women's lives. But as Elinor Cleghorn explains, there were women who had other ideas and boldly challenged attitudes towards motherhood

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10 mins

April 2026

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Ancient Egyptian omelette

ELEANOR BARNETT whips up an eggah - a tasty dish that continues to be enjoyed in Egypt to this day

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2 mins

April 2026

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Seventy years ago, Nikita Khrushchev stood before a packed hall in central Moscow and delivered a four-hour denunciation of Josef Stalin, one that exposed mass terror and attempted to reclaim the legacy of Leninism. So what drove this extraordinarily radical move? And did the Soviet people buy Khrushchev's message?

When I was an undergraduate, a perennial exam question was ‘Did Stalin betray the revolution?’.

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11 mins

April 2026

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