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Radio Times at 100: a “vivid running commentary” on a century of British life
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Is history under threat at the UK’s universities?
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Artificial intelligence: a modern advance or an ancient nightmare?
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How should we see the NHS’s history on its 75th anniversary?
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Economies in meltdown: lessons from past financial crashes
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Serhii Plokhy on the Russia-Ukraine conflict
“Putin’s misreading of history is a major contributing factor in how this war has progressed”
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Historical echoes of the Ukraine war
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Are some LGBTQ histories being overlooked?
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“History is currently being used for political purposes that have very little to do with the past”
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King Charles III
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Michael Wood on the coronation of Charles III
"The symbolism of the royal promise still means something today"
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The royal family and their right to privacy: who should have access to the records?
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“Many, if not most, Nazi analogies are historically inaccurate”: Richard J Evans on the trouble with comparisons
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“The early 2000s was a strange era of fear and terror”: remembering the Iraq War 20 years on
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How ballroom dancing gripped Britain
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