The Live Aid phenomenon

David Hepworth reflects on the enormous rock concerts that changed the face of live music

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The queen who started a revolution

Breeze Barrington tells the story of Maria of Modena, the Italian Catholic pitched into a hostile Protestant court


Victorian Britain’s boxing sensations

Sarah Elizabeth Cox introduces the pugilists who punched their way to fame in the golden age of bare-knuckle prize-fighting


The Srebrenica massacre

Why did the world fail to stop the worst act of mass killing on European soil since the Second World War? Jan Willem Honig investigates


The triumph of Art Deco

Emma Bastin celebrates the centenary of the interwar design movement that swept through Europe and the US


Medieval warhorses

From the triumph of William the Conqueror to the downfall of Richard III, Oliver H Creighton and Robert Liddiard reveal how horses shaped British history


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