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In the Afternoon on October 1st 1946 a man dressed in a smart civilian suit stood awaiting his verdict in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. What will my verdict be? Guilty or not guilty? Life imprisonment or death by hanging? He pondered.
Who is this man? His name is Albert Speer he was formally known during the Nazi regime as Hitler’s Architect and later...
In Ancient Rome, an insula was typically a type of apartment building that housed the lower and middle classes. It was often several stories high. They typically had shops on the ground floor and living spaces above. Here, William McGrath explains how a Roman insula night does not arrive gently on the upper floors.
...Leo Clarke's story occupies a unique and almost mythic place in Canada's First World War memory, not only for the astonishing audacity of his Victoria Cross action but for the brevity and intensity of his life at war. In little more than two years, Clarke passed from civilian obscurity to battlefield legend, before being cut down almost immediately after his greatest triu...
At the beginning of the Second World War, Britain looked for ways to strike back that went beyond symbolism. The aim was practical effect. Anything capable of unsettling German industry, slowing production, or forcing resources into repair rather than manufacture was worth exploring. Bombing raids dominated headlines and memory, but elsewhere a quieter idea was taking for...
Josephine Butler was a British 19th century social reformer and feminist activist who was certainly ahead of her time. Here. Nancy Bernhard explains the impact that Josephine had across several social areas.
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