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Joyfully I Saw Ten Caribou

Modern art’s missing chapter

25 Feb 2015

The artworks of black and indigenous peoples – a missing chapter in the history of modern art – is brought into sharp focus in a ‘revelatory’...

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Cartoon produced as state propaganda in China during the 1950s

Out of the ashes of Empire

12 Feb 2013

The new identities and ideologies that emerged in East Asia after the fall of Japan’s Empire have rarely been studied. Now, as the region again...

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Detail of a map of the Holy Roman Empire, 1492 - 1618.

Kaiser, Reich and the making of modern Germany

01 Dec 2011

Europe is in crisis and its future is said to depend on Germany. The most comprehensive study of Germany's early modern history ever undertaken...

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Athens acropolis

The Athenians: Another warning from history?

02 Oct 2009

The collapse of Greek democracy 2,400 years ago occurred in circumstances so similar to our own it could be read as a dark and often ignored lesson...

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