ToK Essays Nov 2024

Thirty years after it appeared, Francis Fukuyama's "End of History" remains a model and inspiration

Thirteen Lives stars Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen as two of the heroic divers. Is it accurate?

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

Making History Matters of Importance There are several obstacles between Tudor women and their biographers. Bypassing them is a slow but necessary process. Suzannah Lipscomb | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 6 June 2022 For a long time – in the view of my publisher far too long a time –...

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

A new book explores why history is the perfect subject of study for those with political ambitions.

The pandemic revealed to us that global disasters don't have a simple start, middle and end.

Both are orders of religious warriors and both were taken down by power-hungry rulers

The internet has become strangely nostalgic for life in the Middle Ages.

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.

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.