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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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Varosha, Cyprus, where an abandoned resort has become a tourist attraction

The centre will not hold: what happens when empires collide and collapse

04 Dec 2012

Scholars from more than ten institutions will be gather in Cambridge later this week to share research that shines a light on what happens when...

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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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Cover of The Inner Lives of Empires with portrait of John Johnstone, Betty Johnstone and Miss Wedderburn by Sir Henry Raeburn.

Rebels, rulers and rabbit skins

29 Jun 2011

A new book by historian Emma Rothschild tells the extraordinary story of an eighteenth century family.

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The Cap Arcona ocean liner, used by the Hamburg-South America line until World War II

Germany in a global context

29 Mar 2011

A new perspective on German history is changing the way in which we see the country's present, as well as its past.

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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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