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Suggesting that ‘the uncrowned King of Scotland’ worked to end slavery, rather to entrench it, is irresponsible...

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The movement for a nuclear free world during the late 1980s was made possible by many. But there are no successors...

Britain’s undertakings from the government’s own archives, show a pride rooted in false promises of “one nation...

Looking at the state of the country’s politics today, you’d hardly imagine it. But 100 years ago, Latvia was one of...

At the dawn of Soviet power, LGBT people found a language to express their identity.

In Russia today, there’s little consensus on the events of a century ago. But can you have national reconciliation...

Gaza's historical sites are under threat of destruction, but courageous young Gazan activists, archaeologists and...

The Kremlin has resorted to obfuscating the past in the name of national reconciliation.

The first article in this two-part series traces the formation of nationalism in Jordan as both a pan-Arab identity...

Seventy years after their horrific mass deportation by Stalin, the Kalmyk people still live with its traumas. RU

Roma remain one of Europe’s — and Russia’s — most marginalised communities. But in the 1930s, the USSR considered...

From one man’s search for his ancestor’s executioners to Holocaust dances – here’s how Russia learns to forget. Русский

Post-Soviet people have spent two decades mourning a society that never existed. Русский

A new film opens up the horrors of the Second World War, but will it enable reconciliation?

To this day, Lenin lies in state on Red Square. There’s still space in the mausoleum for more modern heroes – and...

The long battle to create Channel 4 was an unequal one that pitted the public interest against giant corporate and...

For Georgians, this Soviet commemoration doesn’t just bring up the past — it brings up the present too.