Terror in the deep

Did German U-boats fight fair or did they target the crews of ships they sank? Roger Moorhouse weighs the evidence

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Medieval medicine

James Freeman explores how doctors and other healers diagnosed and treated disease during the Middle Ages

Fake news and the Dreyfus affair

Mike Rapport reveals how, after the wrongful exile of a Jewish army officer for treason, French media became a battlefield awash with bias and bile

Spectral beasts and hounds from hell

Why do ghostly dogs dominate tales of supernatural beasts roaming Britain’s landscapes? Karen R Jones tracks these creatures and their origins

1066: not all that

Robert Blackmore questions whether our obsession with individual dates risks obscuring historical truths

Star witness

Louise Devoy explains how the Royal Observatory in Greenwich transformed our understanding of astronomy, navigation and time

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