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The new BBC Lord of the Flies mini-series marks the third adaptation of William Golding’s 1954 novel, following the 1963 and 1990 films. But what is it about this story of a group of English schoolboys stranded on a desert island whose proto-soc...


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Between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, crusading armies unleashed a relentless holy war against the last pagan societies in northern Europe. In the process they forged a new world with a profound legacy that resonates into the present. In this article, Aleksander Pluskowski shares some photographs from travels across the region while researching for his new book,


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In The Stripping of the Altars, Eamon Duffy recreates lay people’s experience of religion in the pre-Reformation church, showing that late-medieval Catholicism was neither decadent nor decayed, but a strong and vigoro...


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In 1945 the Soviet Union controlled half of Europe and was a founding member of the United Nations. By 1991, it had an army four-million strong, five-thousand nuclear-tipped missiles, and was the second biggest producer of oil in the world. But soon afterward the union sank into an economic crisis and was torn apart by nationalist separatism. Its collapse was one of the seism...


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At the eve of the Second World War, an estimated 1.6 million Jewish children lived in Nazi-occupied Europe. While 10,000 of them escaped to Britain in the Kindertransport, only some 500 found a new home in France. In this extract from


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