ToK Essays Nov 2024

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However fastidious they may be about facts, historians are engaged in storytelling, not science.

This summer will mark the 85th anniversary of the start of the Spanish Civil War, a brutal struggle that began with a military uprising against the democratic Second Republic and ended, three years later, in victory for the rebels under General Francisco Franco. The enduring fascination of that conflict, its ability to grip the global imagination, belies its geographical scale and is testament to the power of art.

Intense novel about slavery challenged; county has never banned a book from schools.

Guy Pearce plays the forger in "The Last Vermeer," which details Van Meegeren's ploy to sell a fake artwork to Nazi marshall Hermann Göring.

There has been a marked difference in the coverage of Ukraine with media outlets invoking images of the world wars.

Array Collective took this year's award for tackling taboo topics in Northern Ireland.