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Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook have a genuine interest in Irish history – when I got a chance to discuss Michael Collins and Henry Wilson with them I jumped at it ...

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Drawing on her own experience as an arts journalist, Charlotte Runcie comically skewers bad men, bad faith and (unforgivably) ...

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British nature writer Richard Mabey argues for “the generosity to reset the power balance between ourselves and the natural ...

The 19th-century power struggle between the Sikhs, the British, and the Afghans shaped the political landscape of the time.