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Mary Wollstonecraft was a firebrand thinker of the late-18th century, whose writing proposed radical ideas about equality for all, and the fundamental rights of women. That life took Wollstonecraft ...

On the night of 26 September 1983, at the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union’s early-warning missile detection technology sprang to life. It was the worst-case scenario: the United States, the ...

Across cultures, there have been countless deities representing war throughout history. Is Kratos, the main character in the ...

In a career that went from gracing the cover of Vogue to capturing the horrors of war zones and Nazi death camps, Lee Miller is remembered for defying expectations at every turn. Once a model, muse ...

When the adoptive brothers Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus became co-rulers in AD 161, the Roman empire was enjoying a golden age of progress, prosperity and peace. For nearly 200 years – going back ...

It’s often said that it feels like we, in the third decade of the 21st century, live in an ‘Orwellian’ age. Our likenesses and movements are captured by omnipresent CCTV cameras; our innermost ...

This new game flips the script on what you may have come to expect from war-based interactive experiences. Of course, war has long been a source of inspiration for video game designers, but even if ...

Inscribed on the stone fireplace of the State Dining Room of the White House are the words: “I pray to Heaven bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May ...

The words ‘latrine’ and ‘disaster’ should give a clue as to how between 60 and 100 members of the Holy Roman Empire aristocracy succumbed to a spectacularly foul demise. Gathered in 1184 in an ancient ...